The Breakfast Club Film Director Passes Away at 59

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The Breakfast Club was brilliant, almost a theatrical piece set on film. A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal — the stereotypes of high school life forced to exist together when they were all sentenced to detention, and yet, at the end, find they had more in common than they and everybody thought.

The film was unique, an uncommon exposition on the angst of high school life, and can stand in the annals of coming of age films with great honor. It was helmed by John Hughes, who, has either produced, directed or written beloved films such as Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Weird Science, Uncle Buck, Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

Sadly, John Hughes has passed away at 59. Entertainment Tonight reports.

Hughes passed away suddenly while taking a morning walk during a trip to Manhattan to visit family.

In the last decade, Hughes took a step back from movie-making to enjoy time with his family, maintain a functioning farm in Illinois and support independent arts.

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