Deutch and Hughes’s follow-up collaboration, Some Kind of Wonderful, is equally strong, thanks in part to a working-class San Pedro setting that separates it from the suburban Chicago environments of Hughes’s other 1980s productions.
The result, Pretty in Pink, would become a high point in both men’s filmographies thanks to Deutch’s careful attention to both visual detail and performance it’s one of those debut films where a director with a lot to prove does so by infusing every frame with passion and artistry, resulting in a movie that’s got all of Hughes’s strengths in terms of observational humor and empathy but also feels more lived-in and authentic thanks to Deutch’s naturalistic and spontaneous approach. įor his first production under the Paramount deal, Hughes chose to hand the directing reins over to Howard Deutch, a first-time feature filmmaker who had cut trailers for earlier Hughes movies like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.
Its failure led Hughes to focus on broader, less personal comedies like the Home Alone series and a series of anonymous remakes and reboots ( Miracle on 34 th Street, 101 Dalmatians, Flubber) for the rest of his career his best work was thus concentrated in a period of only around four years (from Sixteen Candles in 1984 to She’s Having a Baby in 1988), but in that four years he had the best run of any American writer-producer-director since Preston Sturges in the 1940s.
It was not only Hughes’ best film but his most autobiographical and self-critical-and unfortunately, his least commercially successful. Those two films make their Blu-ray debut in the package, and it’s great to rediscover them alongside the other three more widely celebrated movies for me, She’s Having a Baby remains Hughes’ finest film as a director, witty and wise and self-deprecating, with an impeccably calibrated comedic performance by Kevin Bacon that shifts into a higher emotional gear in the picture’s deeply moving climax. In less than three years, Hughes wrote, produced, and/or directed five movies for the studio ( Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful, Planes Trains and Automobiles and She’s Having a Baby), all of which have now been reissued on Paramount’s “John Hughes 5-Movie Collection” Blu-ray with a generous supply of extra features, including a terrific piece in which Kevin Bacon interviews Hughes about Some Kind of Wonderful and She’s Having a Baby. Writer-director John Hughes had just begun to make a name for himself with three films he made for Universal ( Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science) when Ned Tanen lured him over to Paramount with an overall deal designed to turn the filmmaker into a mogul. Recently included in this section are downloadable versions of the original music scores that feature in the film.Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Howard Deutch, John Hughes, Some Kind of Wonderful, Tak Fujimoto The soundtrack section contains a breakdown of what song appears in what scene, and now contains the lyrics to all the songs. If you're looking for images from the movie, or you want to get that character's quote right, you'll find what you're looking for there. The image gallery section now contains over 1500 images from the movie, complete with all scene dialogue. The novel does reveal some interesting information, so if you want to know why Keith was in the club waiting for Amanda, the answer lies there.
You may also download a copy of the script from there.Ī short review of David Bischoff's novelisation of the movie is available in the novel section. Information about the movie, the cast of characters, the filming locations, the media press kit, the trailers, and some interesting errors and trivia, can be found in the movie section.Īn analysis of an early draft of the script is available in the script section. Here is a quick run down on what you will find on this site: