'Redemption Day' (R, 1 hour, 39 minutes) An American war hero (Gary Dourdan) races against the clock to rescue his kidnapped wife from terrorists in a formulaic and rather dull actioner from Moroccan producer (French TV's 'The Bureau') turned director Hicham Hajji. Animated with the voices of Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Nicholas Cage, Leslie Mann directed by Joel Crawford.

'The Croods: A New Age' (PG, 1 hour, 35 minutes) This unexceptional but pleasant enough family comedy - the second in the Croods franchise - examines the antics of a prehistoric brood that discovers a safe, secure habitat that has everything they need, but it's already occupied by the Bettermans, who are much more advanced in terms of evolution. While the set is missing 1985's 'The Breakfast Club' - which might be Hughes' best film, if his best film isn't 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' or 1983's 'National Lampoon's Vacation' (written by Hughes but directed by Harold Ramis) - it's a nice survey of Hughes' career as well as an '80s souvenir. Released to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the premiere of 'Pretty in Pink,' Paramount's 'The John Hughes 5-Movie Collection ' includes discs containing 'Pink,' 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles,' (1987) as well as the Blu-ray debuts of 'She's Having a Baby' and 'Some Kind of Wonderful.' As is usual these days, it also has access to a digital copies of each film and quite a few extra features and commentaries. Obviously Hughes' work meant a lot to a lot of people - he hit the mark for a lot of people who were in high school with his best films, '16 Candles' (1984), 'The Breakfast Club' (1985) and 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (1986), which he wrote and directed, as well 'Pretty in Pink ' (1986) and 'Some Kind of Wonderful' (1987), which he wrote and produced and were directed by Howard Deutch.

You could even argue that Hughes paved the way for the tough but true portraits of teens in Tim Hunter's 'River's Edge' (1986), Larry Clark's 'Kids' (1995) and Gus Van Sant's post-Columbine tone poem 'Elephant' (2003). John Hughes was arguably the most influential American director of the 1980s, not so much for his films but for their realistic young characters that teenagers might recognize as members of their tribe. ('Pretty in Pink' and 'She's Having a Baby' directed by Howard Deutch)

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