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Exclusive: John Hughes Opens Up In Unpublished 1997 Interview

7 August 2009 9:33 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

Reclusive director of 'Breakfast Club,' 'Sixteen Candles' gave rare interview.

By Gil Kaufman

John Hughes

Photo: MTV (File)

When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood scene and basically retreated from the public eye and the persona he never wanted to live up to.

But mostly I thought about the time in 1997 when I somehow managed to get the rarely interviewed, publicity-shy director on the phone to talk about a little-known indie movie he wrote called "Reach the Rock."

The ostensible reason I finagled the talk was because I was a fan of a label run by his son, »

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