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www.apolloguide.com - : By the late-1980s, writer/director John Hughes had carved himself a nice niche within the ‘teen movie’ arena. While lesser films (Porky’s and its ilk come to mind) were content with sophomoric humour and bare breasts, Hughes consistently added welcome touches of honesty and reality to his screenplays. This is the filmmaker who introduced us to Ferris Bueller and The Breakfast Club, and when it seemed that his teen-machine was breaking down, Hughes partnered Steve Martin and John Candy to direct his first ‘grown-up’ movie: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''She's Having a Baby'' begins with the simplest and most moving of stories and interrupts it with an amazing assortment of gimmicks. It is some kind of tribute to the strength of the story, and the warmth of the performances by Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern, that the movie somehow manages almost to work, in spite of the adornments. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : If it's not one thing it's another. First, you can't get a date to the prom, and all the cute girls won't talk to you because you're a geek and your life is over. Then, before you know it, you're married, with a dink job and a whopping mortgage and a pregnant wife and troglodyte in-laws and your life is over again. more...
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