Friday List: The Best John Hughes Movie?

A dueling list from me and post.com Movies editrix Jen Chaney Before there was "Nick and Norah" or "American Teen" or even "Napoleon Dynamite," there was the John Hughes oeuvre of teen movies, perhaps the finest collection of adolescent-angst cinema ever committed to celluloid. Luckily, we were fortunate enough to come of age in the Hughes-ian era, uniquely qualifying us to opine on his movies which were, truly, chronicles of the greatest generation. I, Jen, recently wrote about a DVD box set that contains three of the filmmaker's best -- "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Weird Science" -- and that got me thinking about how to rank the Hughes canon. So, I naturally mentioned this to Liz and we had a shocking, shocking I tell you, e-mail exchange in which we found out we didn't agree at all about which of the films is the most culturally significant --
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