During this period, early and mid 80s, when John Hughes was at the height of his powers, Hughes, Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald were essentially in a clique together (strange as that was since Hall and Ringwald were teenagers and Hughes was in his 30s). Feeling like he'd missed out on the group bonding activities that usually make up people's childhood, Hughes wanted to be a teenager again, and maybe was reliving this through Hall and Ringwald. And Hall and Ringwald genuinely liked him, he was like their crazy, funny older brother, who also happened to be a Hollywood power player who had vaunted them both to the top of the A-List. So for a year or two, 1984-1985, during the filming of Sixteen Candles - Un compleanno da ricordare (1984), Breakfast Club (1985), Bella in rosa (1986) and La donna esplosiva (1985), the three of them would hang out, go to restaurants and clubs and concerts and were friends. All of this ended after Breakfast Club (1985), when Hall rejected Hughes for the Duckie role in Bella in rosa (1986), and then Ringwald rejected Hughes' pitch for them to be in Una pazza giornata di vacanza (1986) and Un meraviglioso batticuore (1987), (which were originally going to star Ringwald and Hall just like Breakfast Club (1985) and Sixteen Candles - Un compleanno da ricordare (1984). In fact, this might have very well gone on forever if Hall and Ringwald hadn't put a stop to it. And at that point the terrible trio broke up, and in fact they rarely if ever spoke to Hughes much again after that. Hughes stopped making teen movies and started making kids movies, Io e zio Buck (1989), and the incredibly successful Mamma, ho perso l'aereo (1990), which at that point was the most successful comedy ever made. But many felt the magic was gone, that without his teen muses Hall and Ringwald, and without the comfort of the genre he created, Hughes' spirit and creativity sort of died, and the movies he made after were never quite the same. Both Hall and Ringwald, as well as others, have spoken extensively about this in interviews.

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