It’s little surprise that a filmmaker who’s rarely been seen in public for the last 18 year would go out with little razmatazz. John Hughes, the director of The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has been remembered by friends and family at a private funeral in Lake Forest, Chicago.
Mourners included actors Vince Vaughn, Matthew Broderick and Ben Stein, although the invitation-only event deliberately eschewed too many star names. Stein, who played a teacher in Ferris Bueller also spoke at the funeral, with The Chicago Tribune reporting him as saying, “We’ll never see his like again. He was the Wordsworth of the suburban America post-war generation. He was a great, great, great genius and as much of a friend and a great family man as he was a poet.”
Hughes was laid to rest in the Lake Forest Cemetery, near the shores of Lake Michigan.