John Hughes was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter known as the "king of teen movies" in the 1980s and 1990s. He directed many successful films including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The Breakfast Club tells the story of five high school stereotypes who spend a Saturday in detention together and come to understand each other beyond their stereotypes. It was filmed on location at a high school in Illinois over several weeks in 1984. Ferris Bueller's Day Off from 1986 follows a high school boy who skips school for the day with his friends in Chicago, breaking the fourth wall to narrate to the audience. Both films became hugely popular and influenced films.