Hughes and the Dark Side of Middle Class

John Hughes made a very sweet business and often a lovely entertainment out of movies For high school kids their parents would be happy to have them see This is no common compromise for many teenagers like to see pictures that their parents regard as unsuitable or alarming. The films shied away from anything too messy, no sex, no drugs, no violence Everyone except the nasty rich preppies sneeringly overdone got what they wanted in a matter-of-fact Pragmatic, non-symbolic wayHughes once wrote, "The dark side of my middle class, middle American, suburban life Was not drugs, paganism, or perversion There were no nine insects beneath the grass