John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed and scripted some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s, including the comedy
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), the coming-of-age comedy
Sixteen Candles (1984), the teen sci-fi comedy
Weird Science (1985), the coming-of-age comedy-drama
The Breakfast Club (1985), the coming-of-age comedy
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), the romantic comedy-drama
Pretty in Pink (1986), the romance
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), the comedies
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and
Uncle Buck (1989), the Christmas family comedy
Home Alone (1990) and its sequel,
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).