What a sad day - the man who seems to have written all about my teens is now gone. RIP John. The Academy might not have appreciated you, but I always will!

The Breakfast Club & Pretty In Pink were two of my favourite films as a teenager and I still cherish them now. Weird Science & Ferris Bueller's Day Off & Planes Trains & Automobiles were great fun too! The truly awful Home Alone notwithstanding - JOhn Hughes was a great writer/director - 59 is too young to go.

It's great that carly revisted his work recently. It's nice to look back on the body of work.

Ferris Bueller was my first teen hero as a young kid. The man made family movies that teenagers actually wanted to watch. Uncle Buck is still one of my favourite films, and I even loved Home Alone - when it was first released. JH I salute you! May your name live on forever.

Uncle Buck and Home Alone are some of my childhood movie favourites. My thoughts go out to those closest to him - may he rest in peace. Thanks for the memories John!

I'm from the US, California specifically, and I think Den of Geek is a really great website...thanks to all you over in the UK that run this site! My teenage years were really influenced in a big way by the films of John Hughes. Mainly "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". Yes, I quote his other films, like "The Breakfast Club", "Sixteen candles", even "Weird Science"- I think that I saw almost every John Hughes film from 1983-1988 in the theatres, which is a testament to the admiration we had for his movies even back then. When a John Hughes movie was coming out, you would go to the movies and see it, ASAP!I'm sure there will be a debate as to what was his best film, or, if not "best", maybe his most "defining" film...I'm sure many will likely put "The Breakfast Club"..but, to me, Ferris Bueller's Day Off was the most influential of all his movies. It's one of my favorite films ever made, not just John Hughes's films, but just movies period. Very often, when people ask me what is my favorite movie, Ferris Bueller is the only non Sci-Fi movie that comes to mind...mixed with Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders, Aliens, etc...Ferris Bueller's Day Off shows up...It was a defining film for my own teenage years and the one that has stuck around the longest in my collective memory of the 80's. John Hughes's movies showed teenagers as being sophisticated, intelligent, and optimistic people who didnt just live to get drunk and cause problems. They lived in a very real teenage world of parents, teachers, principals, popular people, etc. The teens in his movies ACTED like teens and LOOKED like teens (especially in Sixteen Candles)... His movies were one of the biggest influences on my generation, and just a big influence on me in general. His movies would make people happy...almost all the John Hughes films were uplifting and positive...One of the most iconic being Ferris Bueller flying over the fence in slow motion to get home before his parents, while the music of the English Beat is playing- To me, that scene encapsulates the positive and upbeat influence he had on my generation. I am now 38, and I still have my copy of Ferris Bueller on VHS...That is still one of my all time favorite films. I feel like one of my best freinds from high school just passed away. Thanks to you all at Den of Geek for having respect for John Hughes and talking about his films. You guys have my respect for that.

How unbelievably sad it was to log on to DoG and see this headline. My sisters and I grew up watching all of his films and we still love them to this day. Seeing John Hughes' movies was kind of like a teen rite of passage for an entire generation of people. He will be missed!

My Condolences to his family, I loved some of his movies especially the breakfast club, Home Alone and Home Alone 2. Definitely his movies defined a generation as well as gave us plenty of chuckles. For all his fans I have collected some good sites and articles (more than 250 sites ) related to his latest news coverage, biography, Movies, Movie Quotes and Interviews. If you are interested take a look at the below link http://markthispage.blogspot.com/2009/08/all-you-want-to-know-about-john-hughes.html