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The Sound Clip icons indicate sound clips.

General Public

  • Pretty In Pink -- Their album is visible near the back door of the Traxx record shop.
  • Weird Science -- A record sleeve is visible in Wyatt's bedroom; they also perform "Tenderness" for the soundtrack.
  • Some Kind of Wonderful -- A band poster hangs in Keith's bedroom.

Gleason, Paul

  • She's Having a Baby -- Howard
  • The Breakfast Club -- Richard Vernon Sound Clip Sound Clip

Glenbrook North High School (filming location)

Gosnell, Raja

  • Home Alone -- Editor
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York -- Editor
  • Home Alone 3 -- Director

Gotch, Tarquin

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Music Supervisor
  • Some Kind of Wonderful -- Music Supervisor
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles -- Music Supervisor
  • She's Having a Baby -- Music Supervisor
  • Curly Sue -- Executive Producer
  • Dutch -- Executive Producer
  • Only the Lonely -- Executive Producer
  • Home Alone -- Executive Producer
The Griswolds!

Griswolds, The

  • National Lampoon's Vacation Sound Clip
  • National Lampoon's European Vacation
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  • National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation

Hall, Anthony Michael

    "I'd consider [working with John Hughes again] any day of the week. I credit [him] for putting me on the map and giving me those opportunities as a child. I had the time of my life." --Anthony Michael Hall

  • National Lampoon's Vacation -- Rusty Griswold
  • Sixteen Candles -- Farmer Ted/Geek Sound Clip
  • The Breakfast Club -- Brian Johnson Sound Clip
  • Weird Science -- Gary Wallace Sound Clip

    "He reminds me of cookies and milk. There's nothing guarded in him." -- Ally Sheedy

You can now watch Anthony Michael Hall in The Dead Zone on the USA Network.

Bryce, Ted and Cliff

Harris, Darren

  • Sixteen Candles -- Cliff Sound Clip
  • Weird Science -- The Weenies

Herpes

  • National Lampoon's European Vacation -- Clark tells the British woman in the wrong hotel room that he has a mild case.
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Jeanie tells Rooney she has a scorching case.

Houses (Nice upper-middle-class, red brick or white with black or white shutters)

    Neal's House in Planes, Trains & Automobiles
  • National Lampoon's Vacation
  • Sixteen Candles
  • National Lampoon's European Vacation
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  • Weird Science
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles
  • Uncle Buck
  • Home Alone
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
  • Home Alone 3

Hughes, John (Cameo Appearances)

  • National Lampoon's Class Reunion -- Partygoer
  • The Breakfast Club -- Brian's Father
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Guy Running Between Cabs

Hughes, John III

  • Curly Sue -- Wrote and produced several songs for the soundtrack
  • Reach the Rock -- Music Supervisor
  • New Port South -- Music Effects (Hughes' other son, James, wrote the film's script)

Insurance Seminars

  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles
    • " . . . I could tolerate any insurance seminar. For days I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a big smile on my face. And they'd say "How can you stand it?" And I'd say "'Cause I've been with Del Griffith. I can take anything." And you know what they'd say? They'd say "I know what you mean. The shower curtain ring guy... whoa."
  • Weird Science
    • Wyatt: "Do you think Lisa's having a good time?"
    • Gary: "Lisa could have a good time at an insurance seminar, Wyatt."