Canadian Documentary Pays Homage to John Hughes
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A Canadian filmmaker examines the legacy of John Hughes in a new documentary, the CBC reports.
Matt Austin Sadowski’s film Don’t You Forget About Me gets to the heart of why John Hughes faded from public eye. Hughes, who made such classics as the Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, died in August of a heart attack. The film is titled after a song by Simple Minds, written for the Breakfast Club.
The documentary is framed as a road trip, where he and a crew piled into a van and went to meet the young actors that Hughes made famous. Sadowski conducted interviews with Ally Sheedy, Andrew McCarthy, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, and Gedde Watanabe, all who got introduced to the Hollywood world in Hughes’s films. He also talked to Clerks director Kevin Smith and Juno director Jason Reitman on the late director’s impact on movies.
Hughes stopped directing films in the 1990s, with his last film being Curly Sue in 1991. Curly Sue was also comedian Steve Carell’s big screen debut. Hughes did continue to produce films until 2001.
Sadowski told the CBC that the documentary was not made as a eulogy to Hughes, who died after the film was completed, but was made as a tribute to his impact as a filmmaker.
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