Why Did This Brat Pack Member Turn Their Back On John Hughes and His Movies? (Molly Ringwald)

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Coming of age in the 1980s was vastly different compared to what today's teenagers go through. Luckily for Gen X, they had the films of John Hughes to guide them through those tricky years. John Hughes connected with teens in a way that no other director, producer, or screenwriter has ever done. This was a time when going to the theater or renting movies from your local Blockbuster was a ritual every weekend. So when movies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo’s Fire came along, it resonated. It also made movie stars of its young actors, and Hughes would reuse them in multiple films, making them the new IT actors in Hollywood. This got the group branded the Brat Pack in an attempt to marginalize their work. Nevertheless, members of the Brat Pack always held Hughes in high regards, praising him as a director, and crediting him for their successful careers. But it wasn’t until recently, that his most beloved and central figure to the Brat Pack turned her back on John Hughes, following his death. Suggesting the man who created these coming-of-age films did so with a chauvinistic, homophobic, and racial slant, that made Molly Ringwald no longer see Hughes in the same genius light.

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