John Hughes, the beloved director and writer behind iconic ’80s flicks The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, would have been 70 years old today.
“John Hughes wrote some of the great outsider characters of all time,” said Apatow.
The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science are available on Hulu, and you can watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Home Alone on Netflix.
Without Hughes’ work to pave the way, it’s unlikely we would have movies such as Heathers, Dazed & Confused, or Superbad.