The Breakfast Club

I grew up in the 80's......luved everything about this film. Great music and excellent soundtrack.

Highly recommend! This movie has so many good parts, I don't know where to start. Definitely worth watching!

I haven't seen this movie for 15 years until today. I was a bit nervous because I didn't think I would like it the same. I don't like it the same. I like it alot more. I enjoyed everything about this movie. The setting, the characters personalities, and the dialogue.

The Breakfast Club is about a group of teens spending their saturday in detention. Played by Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Micheal Hall. They're forced to sit in the library and think about what they did to get there. They begin conflicting with each other. Then later start to understand each other. What I like the most about this movie is the depiction of the troubled teen. No one is "out of control" for no reason. There is always something and the movie captures it very well. On some occasions you may like the characters. Then later they'll pull something and you'll be like, "damn, he's an a**". But this is how someone who is disturbed by problems at home would behave. At least the troubled teens searching for attention that I knew would.

The movie moves at a good pace and never got boring to me. It has a very good mix of comedy and drama. And a pretty good soundtrack. This is my favorite teen movie ever tied with Dazed and Confused. This movie brings back so many memories. I really feel these characters because I didn't behave that much different from one of them. The DVD is very weak on extras containing just a trailer. But who buys a movie just for features anyway? Of course there are some people who don't like this movie but I don't think its over-rated at all. Its worth a watch.

And to all of my horror buddies. I will admit this is in my collection. You heard that right, MY collection. Not my girls. She was shocked when I opened up the package and pulled it out.

John Hughes can script and direct very well and proved that with"Pretty in Pink: and "16 Candles". Legend has it that he cranked out the screenplay to "Breakfast Club" in two days, and I think it really shows. With exception of Anthony Michael Hall, the players are all poorly cast. Molly Ringwald is pretty and talented, but not pretty or talented enough to make an impression as a spoiled teen queen. Nor are Nelson and Estevez buyable as class stoner and class jock. Kids this age are often shallow, but the roles here have all the real depth of a leaky baby pool.
Worse than the poor casting is Hughes' "reach-to-be-deep" script. This group of kids are supposed to jointly reach profound conclusions about their lives and themsleves in the matter of a few hours of detention. It's a try-too-hard grasp at brilliance that cheapens the viewer and writer both.
See this if you must. If it's your first viewing, you may be surprised why this film is so highly regarded. If you saw it in the 80's, you may wonder why you would watch it again.

Ah... the eighties - a simpler time. A time when James Cameron was the greatest Sci-fi director out there (he had not even begun his obsession with the Titanic). A time when bright, almost neon, colours and big hair were in. A time when Ferris Bueller had made cutting school into an art form and Judd Nelson was the coolest guy on the planet!

The Breakfast Club is not just another teenage movie, it is the teenage movie! (Even though the average age of the actors in the movie would have been about 25). I think you have to see it when you're a teenager to really appreciate it. Anyone who sees it when they are in their thirties or later, like Richard Vernon, (the teacher in charge of the unruly group of teenagers) has already forgotten what it was like to have raging hormones and bad hair.

You could argue that it is a movie by numbers, giving you all the elements and characters that teenagers can relate to. You have in the simplest terms and most convenient definitions a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Everyone one of us can relate to one of these characters (personally, I was the basket case). You have snappy dialogue, a very uncool and intolerant authority figure, in the guise of Paul Gleason, demonstrating the generation gap perfectly. Lots of pretty people to satisfy those raging hormones. You also have all the major topics that teenagers are most concerned about discussing, losing your virginity, parental oppression, and school status to name but a few.

The Breakfast Club is a film that I will make sure that my children watch when they are teenagers, and hopefully they will appreciate it as much as I did. (My kids are going to hate me!)