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John Hughes Made Millions of Teens (Including Me) Think He Was Speaking Directly to Them

By Mari Sasano
SEE Magazine | August 13, 2009
There are still great movies made for and about teenagers now. But John Hughes wrote our movies and introduced us to our own teenage angst for the first time. And nothing new, no matter how great, can ever take that away.
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Tags: 80s movies, John Hughes
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