I lived in Harvard for more than 20 years, and I remember when writer and director John Hughes, known for hit movies including “Home Alone,” ” The Breakfast Club,” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” moved around 1990 to the countryside in Harvard way off Hebron Road.
It was so far off Hebron Road and surrounded by so many trees that I couldn’t see any buildings on the property when I’d pass by, taking my youngest daughter to a friend’s house nearby. This Northwest Herald story says there was a house, guest house and stable. But every time we passed by with a different friend of hers in the car, we’d always point out, “That’s where the director (correction: it should be writer) of ‘Home Alone’ lives.”
Hughes died of a heart attack Thursday at age 59 while visiting family in New York.
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John Hughes was a great filmmaker, but one thing he did not do is direct HOME ALONE. Chris Columbus did.
He wrote the ‘Home Alone’ series, you are right.