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You couldn't ignore me if you tried, the Brat Pack, John Hughes, and their impact on a generation, Susannah Gora

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

You couldn't ignore me if you tried

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Susannah Gora

the Brat Pack, John Hughes, and their impact on a generation

Nothing compares to Hughes: teen cinema and the man who could change it forever -- Eternal flame: Sixteen Candles lights up the screen -- Breakfast of champions: The Breakfast Club "breaks the rules, bares their souls," and revolutionizes the teen film genre -- Not just for breakfast anymore: inside the heat of St. Elmo's Fire -- Becoming "The Brat Pack": a magazine writer coins the term that permanently labels young Hollywood -- Sitting pretty: Ringwald and Hughes reteam for Pretty in pink, a rose-tinted look at teenage love -- We got the beat: behind the music of the Brat Pack films -- I love Ferris in the springtime: Ferris Bueller crafts the perfect day off before graduating from high school, and John Hughes graduates from directing teen films -- Teens in wonderland: the drama behind Some Kind of Wonderful -- The end of the innocence: the Brat pack makes the tough transition to adulthood, while John Hughes's power in Hollywood grows -- Anything, and everything: in the last of the great eighties youth films, Cameron Crowe and John Cusack Say Anything about the passion of young love -- Pack to the future: the eighties become the nineties, John Hughes becomes the creator of one of the highest-grossing comedies of all time, and the Brat Pack actors become the people they are today -- Life moves pretty fast: John Hughes's final years -- Don't you forget about me: how the Brat pack and their films changed a generation -- When the light gets into your heart

Brat Pack, John Hughes, and their impact on a generation