John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 ? August 6, 2009) was an American filmmaker. He was born in Lansing, Michigan . He grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and Northbrook , a suburb of Chicago , Illinois . He died of a heart attack in Manhattan , New York City .

Hughes' movies include: National Lampoon's Vacation , Sixteen Candles , The Breakfast Club , National Lampoon's European Vacation , Weird Science , Pretty in Pink , Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Some Kind of Wonderful , Planes, Trains and Automobiles , She's Having a Baby , The Great Outdoors , Uncle Buck , National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation , Home Alone , Career Opportunities , Only the Lonely , Curly Sue , Beethoven , Home Alone 2: Lost in New York , Dennis the Menace , Baby's Day Out , Miracle of 34th Street , Lovers in Las Vegas, 101 Dalmatians , Flubber , Home Alone 3 , Just Visiting , Maid in Manhattan and Drillbit Taylor .

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• John Hughes on IMDb

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