
74 minutes
7/13/2010
Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s teens, but every generation that has followed. Then in 1991 he hung up his director’s hat and disappeared into obscurity ala J.D Salinger. In 2008, a group of young Canadian filmmakers set out to complete a documentary about the man with what they hoped would culminate with an interview, which would be his first since 1999.

Andrew McCarthy
as Self

Annie Potts
as Self

Gedde Watanabe
as Self

Justin Henry
as Self

Judd Nelson
as Self

Ally Sheedy
as Self

John Kapelos
as Self

Mia Sara
as Self

Alan Ruck
as Self

Scott Coffey
as Self

Kelly LeBrock
as Self

Ilan Mitchell-Smith
as Self

Gene Siskel
as Self (archive footage)

Roger Ebert
as Self

Howard Deutch
as Self

Jason Reitman
as Self

Jim Kerr
as Self

Allan Moyle
as Self

Richard Roeper
as Self

Chris Wyatt
as Self
David Anderle
as Self
Mike Bender
as Self
Jackie Burch
as Self
Sean Covel
as Self

Richard Elfman
as Self
Jennifer Gibgot
as Self
Andrew Gunn
as Self

Kevin Smith
as Self