He made all the difference…

It’s sad to hear that John Hughes has died. So young. So completely influential to me as a teenager. If you grew up in the 80′s, you saw his films, unless you lived a very sheltered, boring life.

The Breakfast Club My all time favorite. I’ve seen it countless times. Every time it is playing on TV and I run into it, I don’t care where it is at in the movie, I MUST WATCH IT! (I also own it on DVD) I know most every line. Everyone my age saw it when it came out. Everyone loved it. Everyone could relate. And after that, everyone compared their real friends to those characters in the movie and even code named some of them for their character. My kids have watched it with me and are in love with it too. It completely captures the teenage years. This is the only film, besides Purple Rain and Gone with the Wind, I can tell you who I saw it with and the exact theater and seats we were sitting it. I can’t even tell you that about the last film I saw…hell, I don’t even remember the name of the last movie I saw.

We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.

Sixteen Candles Um, yeah, Jake Ryan. And his Porsche. And what girl did not want to have that guy, with that car, waiting for them someday?

That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.

Pretty In Pink I never would have thought I would marry a guy named Blain when I first saw this movie. Seriously? Blain? That’s a major appliance!

You said you couldn’t be with someone who didn’t believe in you. Well I believed in you. You just didn’t believe in me. I love you… always.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off I still say lines from this movie. My kids have no clue why I say, “Bueller…Bueller…Bueller”, when they aren’t paying attention to me. I guess it’s time to rent that one and show them.

Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

A tribute to John Hughes films: