The Breakfast Club (1985)
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. Title
: The Breakfast Club
Release Date
: February 15, 1985
Runtime
: 97 minutes
MPAA Rating
:R
Genres
: Comedy, Drama
Production Co. : Universal Pictures, Channel Productions, A&M Films Production Countries
: United States of America
Director
: John Hughes
Writers
: John Hughes
Casts
:
Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Ally Sheedy, John Kapelos, Perry Crawford, Mary Christian, Ron Dean, Tim Gamble, Fran Gargano, Mercedes Hall
Plot Keywords : tardy hall, high school, teenagers, detention
Alternative Titles
:
El club de los cinco - [ES] The Breakfast Club - Der Fruehstuecksclub - [DE]
The Breakfast Club Reviews
Remember yourself by hazel_inverse on 31 March 2003
313 out of 345 people found the following review useful: We all remember being a teenager. A crazy, intense time when your high were higher and your lows were lower, and every experience was that much more significant. John Hughes movie brilliantly captures that environment, that era in our lives, and all the social rifts that we all helped to create for ourselves. I have heard it said that "The Breakfast Club" is melodramatic, overacted, and simplistic. If you subscribe to that flippant perspective you might as well join Vernon in his office because you are doing the same thing that he did. Seeing the movie as you want to see it, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. If you really want to understand this film, think back to your own high school days. Think about your last year there. Dig out your old diary or book of angstful poems and reaquaint yourself with who you were then, when you felt things more deeply. "The Breakfast Club" does not exist not for highschool kids, as some suggest. Why would they need it? They live there. It exists for all of us who have already been through there, who feel that they are above it now. It exists so that we can remember what it was like and better understand ourselves, and the next generation. Because you can't dismiss something you understand.