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

Every generation has its cultural touchstones; shared experiences and memories that eventually come to define the generation. Music and film are some of the most easily recognised signposts, and for those of us lucky enough to be children of the 80s, while the Star Wars trilogy will always define our childhood, our teenage years are best represented by the films of American film director John Hughes. His 80s film output includes writing, producing and directing a string of era-defining 80s classics that helped give the emerging Generation X a voice and an identity. Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science, Pretty In Pink. All classic 80s films that made stars of Molly Ringwald, Matthew Broderick, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez and countless others.  Hughes captured the 80s teenage years, effortlessly expressing the awkward angst of adolescence without romanticising or glorifying it. This is best expressed of course, in the immortal Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and the peerless The Breakfast Club, two films that you no doubt love as much as we do. As a proud card-carrying member of Generation X I’d like to suggest a quick wee moment of silence to pay tribute to John Hughes. Hughes is dead today at 59. He died in Manhattan from a heart attack after his morning walk. Thanks for the memories John, I’m off to bust out the soundtrack to The Breakfast Club…  

“Don’t you…. forget about me……”