The ’80s were full of movies poking fun at bespectacled nerds, so Weird Science plays as a wish fulfilment fantasy for socially-awkward boys who lusted over girls in gym class. And amidst those landmark high school movies was Weird Science, Hughes’s zaniest project and a stylistic outlier in his filmography, although it’s become a cult for those who like teen movies doused in trippy madness.ġ985 was a different time for geeks, a few decades before the mainstream caught up with why Transformers are cool. That iconic teen movie has a few scenes that date its sexual politics awfully, but it paved the way for his superior coming-of-age films The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and the lesser-known Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). John Hughes made his name writing the first two National Lampoon’s Vacation films (1983–85) and Mr Mom (1983), before segueing into directing his own script - Sixteen Candles (1984).
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