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Monday, 26 December 2016

Don't You Forget About Me

So this sounded great in principle: a group of filmmakers set out to document the career of John Hughes, interviewing previous cast members and crew from his films.

I grew up with John Hughes films, and I'm a big fan of both Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Breakfast Club, so I went into this documentary expecting something brilliant.

And that's where I was let down... They had some nice interviews with cast etc. but I think the model they went with to tell a story in the documentary was the undoing of the film. They decided to turn up on John Hughes's front door step with cameras, having not contacted him before or securing an interview.

Needless to say, they got no interview and went home empty handed. Which kind of ruined the whole premise. Very disappointing. 3/10