The Breakfast Club (1985) M

Director: John Hughes
Stars: Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall
Duration: 97 minutes

Can you believe it's been 40 years since this quintessentially Gen X classic hit our screens?

A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal walk into Saturday detention and solidify their place in the 1980s zeitgeist in this acclaimed coming-of-age movie, recognized in 2016 by the National Film Registry as a film of cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.  

What happens when five strangers end up together in Saturday detention? Badass posturing, gleeful misbehavior, and a potent dose of angst. With this exuberant, disarmingly candid film, writer-director John Hughes established himself as the bard of American youth, vividly and empathetically capturing how teenagers hang out, act up, and goof off.

The title was originally The Lunch Bunch, but a friend of John's from another school had a detention class called "The Breakfast Club", so he decided to go with that. As remembered by actor Ally Sheedy decades after the making of John Hughes’s beloved classic, each of the five teenaged leads were encouraged to improvise; film editor Dede Allen, working just outside the main library set, would pop in on occasion to share with Hughes an angle she might need to match one character’s bit of improv.  

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