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John Hughes Obituary and Ten Best Films
David Bax , August 10th, 2009 10:24

John Hughes was a comedy genius who perfectly captured the trails and tribulations of the American suburban teen. He created some of the most memorable films of the 80s including The Breakfast Club, Christmas Vacation, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Battleship Pretension's David Bax looks back on his legacy with a list of his top ten films.

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Uncle Buck

With this film, Hughes injected a rogue element into his suburban stomping ground by placing John Candy’s titular character, a distinctly urban version of the American loser, in the home of his wealthy relatives. Buck may be crude but he’s never unkind, at least not to those who don’t deserve it. As reductive a cultural anthropologist as Hughes may have seemed at times, this film highlights the fact that, at his heart, he was interested in the better angels of humanity, no matter what form they came in.