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The brain, the athlete, the princess, the basket case, and the criminal - yes we’re talking about The Breakfast Club. It’s been dubbed as a seminal film of the 1980s and takes a place as an intergenerational classic.
They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7.00am they had nothing to say, but by 4.00pm they had bared their souls to each other and become The Breakfast Club.
Directed by John Hughes and starring Judd Nel... read the rest.
Forced, artificial dialogs with eye-rolling character arcs
Released in 1985 and written & directed by John Hughes, "The Breakfast Club" is a teen dramedy about five high school students from five different sub-cultures during an all-day detention over the weekend at their suburban Chicago school. Molly Ringwald plays the popular girl, Emilio Estevez the jock, Anthony Michael Hall the Brainiac nerd, Judd Nelson the dope-smoking rebel and Ally Sheedy the neurotic misfit. Paul Gleason and John Kapelos are on hand as the host principal and janitor respectively