In the 1980’s writer/director John Hughes‘s name was directly tied to the word “teenager”. During the early part of that decade, Hughes wrote and directed two movies that would mold the template for any film whose lens focused on the teen mindset for years to come. Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club encapsulated the zeitgeist of an era , both the good and bad aspects of it, and defined the language of teenage angst for many of the youth of that generation. This week Part-Time Fanboy looks at two of the movies that kicked off Hughes’s directing career. Kristian chats with his friends Paul Edwards, Reyna Velarde, Yvis Canavale, and J. Holtham about two movies that had much to say about young people in the eighties. This episode covers all of the fun, dramatic, and now-cringeworthy moments that these movies provided to a set of kids who were stumbling their way through the era of MTV, Reaganomics, and the VCR recorder.
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