John Hughes
22) Sixteen candles
Pub. Date
©2003, ©1984.
Description
It's Samantha Baker's sweet sixteen and no one in her family remembers the important occasion. But wait...the day isn't over yet!
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Home alone: An eight-year-old boy is left home alone on Christmas, and has to defend his home against two bumbling burglars.
Home alone 2: This year, Kevin is spending the holidays in New York City. Unfortunately, his parents are spending them in Florida! Accidentally separated from his parents once again, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his did's credit card. But when the notorious Wet Bandits escape prison and head for New York...
24) Pretty in pink
Description
She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure.
25) Flubber
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Befuddled chemistry professor Phillip Brainard discovers a miraculous elastic goo that, when applied to anything, makes it bounce super high and fast. The professor uses the goo to re-win his fiancée and save his financially strapped college.
Description
A suburban Chicago family travels across the United States and encounters a series of disasters; when the Griswolds win a two-week vacation in Europe they have no idea the havoc they will create; the Griswolds have a series of comedic adventures when they spend their family vacation in Las Vegas.
29) Home alone 3
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A band of international crooks hides a stolen military computer chip in a toy car, but an airport mix-up puts it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt. When the criminals zero in on him, he sets an array of ambushes and booby traps.
30) Baby's day out
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Baby Bink is out on the town for a day, visiting wondrous places and seeing fantastic sights. The only problem is, he is traveling alone!
31) Baby's day out
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Baby Bink is out on the town for a day, visiting wondrous places and seeing fantastic sights. The only problem is, he is traveling alone!
32) Mr. Mom
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Michael Keaton plays a harried househusband and Teri Garr a rising business executive who encounter one problem after another.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Appears on list
Description
The Goonies: Two kids find a treasure map just as they're about to lose their house. They and their friends go on a search for the treasure, but not without trouble from a few ne'er-do-wells.
Beetlejuice: After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands...
34) Curly Sue
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Chicago. Another town, another innocent scam for vagabond Bill Dancer and the curly-topped orphan he's cared for since infancy. This time, however, Bill hits the jackpot and his newest con whisks them both from the poorhouse to the penthouse with lots of laughs along the way.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Home Alone: When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence,...
38) Weird science
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Two nerdy best friends have the power to create the "perfect woman". Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the two use their creation to learn about the pleasures and pitfalls of adolescence.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
When a family crisis happens, Uncle Buck, an idle, good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces; an unwelcome brother-in-law and his family show up unannounced at the lakeside resort of their straight-laced relatives and soon compete in their attempts to enjoy the outdoors.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Home alone: When eight-year-old Kevin McCallister's family left for vacation, they forgot one minor detail: Kevin!
Home alone 2: Kevin McCallister is ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. The notorious Wet Bandits, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist in New York. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget.