I like to get my actors out here where we can make our movies in privacy.” Hughes remained in Chicago and filmed his directorial debut, Sixteen Candles, there. “In Hollywood, you spend all of your time having lunch and making deals. “I don’t like being around the people in the movie business,” Hughes told Roger Ebert. Stan Dragoti ended up directing the film, but only after Hughes turned it down, because he preferred to make his movies in Chicago, not Hollywood. JOHN HUGHES REJECTED THE IDEA OF DIRECTING MR. It was a good movie, but if you ever read John’s original script for Mr. “They fired John and brought in a group of TV writers. “Then the players involved were upset because John was writing out of Chicago instead of L.A.,” Donner said in Movie Moguls Speak. Hughes had a TV deal with Aaron Spelling, who came aboard to executive produce. The players involved with the movie told Donner and Hughes they thought it should be a TV movie. John was so ignorant, that in his ignorance, he was hilarious.” Would you look at it?’ So I looked at it and I said, ‘This is great! Let’s do it!’ We kind of developed it ourselves.” In the book Movie Moguls Speak, Donner mentioned how Hughes “had never been to a grocery store, he had never operated a vacuum cleaner. He said, ‘Do you think this would make a good movie?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, this is really funny.’ So he said, ‘Well, I have about 80 pages in a drawer. “It was hilarious! I was on the floor laughing. “One day, he was telling me that his wife had gone down to Arizona and he was in charge of the two boys and he didn’t know what he was doing,” Donner told IGN. Based on that, she contacted him and the two became friends. Mom producer Lauren Shuler Donner came across a funny article John Hughes had written for National Lampoon. Mom remains an ahead-of-its-time comedy classic. Still, on the 35th anniversary of its release, Mr. But some people think that the movie's ending-which sees the couple revert to traditional gender roles-sidelined the movie's message. Mom hit home for a lot of viewers, as the economy was on the downturn and more and more women were entering (or reentering) the workforce. But Hughes himself was still a relative unknown, as it would be another year before he entered the teen flick phase of his career, which would make him iconic. Hughes had written National Lampoon's Vacation, which-oddly enough-was released in theaters the weekend after Mr. Mom marked the first time he headlined a movie, and it launched his career. In 1982, Keaton turned in a star-making role in Ron Howard’s Night Shift, but Mr. To ensure their three kids are taken care of, his wife, Caroline (Teri Garr), goes back to work-leaving Jack to fight off a vacuum cleaner and learn why it's never a good idea to feed chili to a baby. Mom, a comedy about a family man named Jack Butler (Micheal Keaton) who loses his job. John Hughes penned the script for 1983's Mr.
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