Posts with tag "john hughes"

'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' Turns 25

Posted Jun 11th 2011 at 01:01 PM by Moviefone Editors

Happy Anniversary to one of the great teen comedies of all time, 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.' In honor of today's 25-year milestone, our pals at Moviefone had a chat with Edie McClurg -- who played the hit film's hilarious school secretary Grace -- about working with Matthew Broderick, Jeffrey Jones and the late John Hughes. Turns out, she's a righteous dude. What makes 'Ferris Bueller's Day ...

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John Hughes, Director of '80s Teen Classics, Dies

Posted Aug 6th 2009 at 04:40 PM by PopEater Staff

Film director John Hughes has died at age 59 of a heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to New York City to visit family. Hughes was responsible for some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s, including 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', 'Weird Science', 'The Breakfast Club', 'National Lampoon's Vacation', 'Sixteen Candles', 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Planes, Trains and ...