John Hughes was an American filmmaker and writer who defined the 1980s teen film — 'The Breakfast Club', 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', 'Sixteen Candles' — setting most of his work in the Chicago suburban landscape of Nolan's own American childhood.
Hughes's suburban Chicago films provided Nolan with the American half of his transatlantic cultural formation — the flat-lawn, mall-and-high-school world that coexisted with his British boarding-school experience.
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