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What would a ninth-grader do if her father poked his head into the classroom one day and said, ''Hi, honey,'' in front of all her friends? That's simple. Hughes's keen understanding of the world his young characters inhabit and the ways in which they might behave. It also shows off, even better than the earlier films have, Mr. It has a light touch, a disarming cast, a well-developed sense of humor and a lot of charm. Hughes and directed (as ''Pretty in Pink'' was) by Howard Deutch, has a much wider appeal than its predecessors.

''Some Kind of Wonderful,'' produced and written by Mr. Hughes's preoccupation with the most microscopic teen-age problems has made him king of an entire genre, however inconsequential and small.īut at long last, the John Hughes method has paid off. In films like ''Sixteen Candles'' and ''The Breakfast Club'' (which he wrote and directed) and ''Pretty in Pink'' (which he wrote and produced), Mr. JOHN HUGHES may be the only grown man in America capable of shaping an entire film, quite seriously, around a question of who will take whom to the prom.

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