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LOVE THIS MOVIE,” GUSHES ANTHONY Michael Hall, discussing the 35th anniversary of director John Hughes’s . Thanks to the enduring power of his work with Hughes, the iconic ’80s star has gathered an alarming number of films that are currently enjoying doublefigure anniversaries. Starting with 1984’s high school comedy , and continuing into 1985 with decade-defining drama and the gloriously over the top entry we find ourselves focused on today, Hall’s collaborations with this pillar of teen cinema not only impacted a generation of audiences worldwide – they forever changed his life. “John was like my best friend,” he says candidly. “He was amazing.” Set in the director’s native Chicago and vigorously peppered with Oingo Boingo’s eponymous earworm track, Hall and Hughes’s final collaboration is their most off-the-wall. When nerdy teens Gary (Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell Smith) get tired of waiting for their