Pretty, Fast-Talking Movies that Stopped to Look Around

John Hughes' pristine legacy

I'm posting this appreciation of my favourite 1980s writer-director (which originally appeared in Arena Hommes Plus after his death in 2009), because I just watched Brats, a just-released documentary by Andrew McCarthy. It's about the young actors who, like him, frequently appeared together in 1980s Hollywood coming of age movies, many of them written a…