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Summary: Where the Brat Pack Got Started!
Review: The story is simple: 5 kids are serving detention on a Saturday Morning. A geek, a goth, a prep, a biker-type dude, and a jock. Through the movie, you meet these characters and slowly, they sort of band together and become friends (hence the name). This movie is all about dealing with your peers, and it tells you that all of your friends don't have to come from the same backround or be just like you. Overall, it's good clean fun!!!
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Summary: Real.
Review: As a person who just graduated High School, I have to say that this is the most realistic teen movie I have ever seen. These kids talk, look, and act like real teens. The dialogue is brilliant, funny, and provacative. "The Breakfast Club" is a wise, witty, and quotable film that rips into the fundamentals of teen life - cliques, parents, and sex. It does all this with a little innuendo and some foul language (mostly from Bender), but it is ten times cleaner than most teen movies nowadays. It's respectful while being interesting, and is one of my top ten movies.
One thing that impressed me is the way that this film stood up the test of time. These things were going on in the 80's, just as they're going on today. This movie is great for middle to high schooler's, but I know my 40-year-old parents still enjoy it today. It really bridges gaps. But don't get me wrong - this movie is enjoyable and funny - any soul searching is purely voluntary. Get "The Breakfast Club", if only for a good laugh.
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Summary: A Tale of Half Nelsons
Review: So ... 'summing you readers know what the heck Ecclessiastes is about ... where in hades am I coming from ?Not wishing to get Biblical on anyone, however, THE BREAKFAST CLUB, like Ecclessiastes, is Pravda that, Generation-to-Generation, the Norm, not the Exception, are viscious, mean-spirited, hurtful, obnoxious "persons" such as that portrayed by Mr. Nelson. In short, THE BREAKFAST CLUB serves as a Superb Reminder that the World really hasn't changed a bit since Creation. Or my own torments at my own Judd Nelsons' hands. I should particularly reveal to the Reader two aspects in particular to THE BREAKFAST CLUB that take me back in time to a most dreary and depressing "life" among my "peers" - not only did I feel Nothing in Common with Any of its Leads, it must be observed that these most Disparate Personalities are not only Protagonists, but Antagonists to each other. One might also note that there are Two Female Students, Two Male Students, and Two Radically Disparate School "Officials", one, a powerful hard hind end who desperately wishes to ram his autocratic rule down the throat of yet several MORE "rebellious" "punks", effectively transforming them into spiteful replicas of God Himself, and a lowly Janitor (you just got to read this Ecclessiastes thing for a complete understanding !) who is a hell of a LOT more understanding AND compassionate re: our teen "offenders" then Almighty Mr. Muckety Muck. In the words of a Woman I very much respect, So it goes. In my own words, So it must go on.
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Summary: Essential for all Teens
Review: One of the first teen movies, The Breakfast Club has a very basic concept. Five teens representing the most generic types of high schoolers(the brain, the beauty, the athlete, the criminal, and the recluse) being put together in isolation for a day and the movie follows the interactions and feelings they share with each other. It is funny at parts and sad at parts and it almost shows that everyone can be together peacefully. Unfortunately, it is not that way in real life, and the characters even touch on how society will break each class of people apart. They stay true to their stereotypes in the beginning and keep apart from each other; but given time, they slowly move together until they destroy their stereotypes and labels and become the same people. You'll love all the characters and can easily relate any of them to someone from your high school. it touches on the minds of teens and hasn't dated a bit since the 80's in my opinion. It is an easy movie to watch again and again as it is simple in concept, yet has a powerful underlying message of morality and society. Recommended for all because all can relate to it. Score: 9.5/10
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Summary: A Miracle of a Movie
Review: So, okay, the yuppie snobs called it "The Little Chill" when it was released. But "Breakfast Club" is about six times better than "The Big Chill" (which was a John Sayles ripoff anyway) because it gave us characters who mattered, characters who represented a type but transcended all traps of cliche and stereotype to become real live human beings. Watch the film today, and listen to the beautifully realized dialogue. How did he know? How did John Hughes know that this was how we talked, this is what went on, these were the genuine problems we faced? John wasn't afraid of confronting cliches (the prom queen's divorced parents try to buy her love, the tough kid is abused by his alcoholic dad, etc.) because he knew that for millions of us, those cliches were real, and the fact that our problems weren't even original hurt us all the more. And he delivered all this in an enormously entertaining package, with genuine laughs and killer attitude. I'm not sure the actors were ever as strong as they were in "Breakfast Club." Some of them floundered for years shortly after this was released. But man, did they ever figure these characters out to the BONE. Emilio Estevez' performance is more and more impressive with every viewing...his character has the least flash, but he might be the deepest, since he only barely understands how badly he's been hurt by his father's drive. But they ALL nailed their characters. It must have been incredible to be a part of this movie...watching it today brings back those memories like a flood. Is "Breakfast Club" still relevant today? I don't know, but I sure hope so.
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Summary: Unsurpassed teenage theme movie
Review: I saw BC twice before, but many years ago. U have always wanted to own it. Unprepared to wait for the 25 Anniversary DVD, I bought this barebones DVD release. To be fair, this DVD was released in 1998 when the format was quite new. I'll get to the DVD issues later.
BC is a fantastic film focussing on 5 teenagers who have to do detention on a Saturday at school. The character development is brilliant as is the acting. The narrative is simple yet compelling. DVD SUMMARY: As mentioned above, this DVD came out in 1998. It is a basic DVD with poor features (and some typing errors too). The movie is Widescreen 1:85 but not anamorphic - despite this, picture quality is ok. The black bars are rather large though, if you have a 16:9 TV you may be able to minimise these. The sound quality is the DVD's biggest let-down. Mono city, and does it show! Sounds so flat and can be hard to hear what characters are saying in some scenes. But even with these letdowns, the DVD is worth owning for the film alone. It is a film you will want to watch over and over. I'll also be buying the 25th Anniversary DVD if it eventuates.
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Summary: John Hughes
Review: Probably one of the best teen flicks of the 1980s, The Breakfast club released in 1985, is good. It speaks to High Schoolers everywhere and giving the hardships many face in High School and how we catergorize ourselves. Every single actor in this movie plays there parts well, I especially like Ally Sheedy's character because I associat the most with her. This movie speaks about kids in High School of all generations. This movie will live on forever. I recommend this movie fully because it speaks about my generation, Generation 80s, and no one can ever take that away from me.
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Summary: Why did they call this the Breakfast Club
Review: The reason I am giving this movie 4 stars, is I don't get why this movie was named The Breakfast Club, when the movie has nothing to do with breakfast, and there is no club that goes out to breakfast. Maybe that 5 students has to meet at 7:00 for a 9 hour dention. Then why didn't they call this The Dention Club instead of The Breakfast Club? As the movie opens, 5 students report to school for a dention. The staff member (Paul Gleason) in charge gives a 1,000 word essay on who the students think they are. They all have diffrent personality traits. There is a princess (Molly Ringwald), a brain (Anothony Michael Hall), a jock (Emilio Estevez), a criminal (Judd Nelson), and the weird one (Ally Sheedy). The criminal steals a screw and closes the doors of the dention room that angries the staff member who has to spend the time in school in his office next to the dention room, and instead of working on the eassy, they spend thier time talking expect for the weird one. This is a great movie to watch if you love teen movies, but this movie has a R rating for lanuage and I'm not sure if it rated R for anything else. This is also a must watch if you are a big fan of teen movies, or if you are a fan of one more more of the cast members. But this movie could have also been called the lunch club. But this more doesn't have a lot of characters, I say the movie has about 10 characters, and the 5 main characters are spending a Saturday in dentention. And there is a narrator's voice in this movie. I think ths movie should not have been called the Breakfast Club. Because this movie has nothing to do with breakfast.
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Summary: Good!
Review: The Breakfast Club is a a good movie and I enjoyed watching it, some of the humor is a little crass and some older people may find it kind of gross and not their cup of tea but I think the humor is okay and I have actually watched movies that had much worse crass humor. It's not a movie I want to buy and add to my video or DVD collection but I would rent it or watch it if it was on TV.
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Summary: I'm the president of the Breakfast Club...
Review: This is a remarkably well done movie that treats teenagers as real people and not just sex crazed maniacs. This is pretty accurate by todays standards except for the dated music and clothing, but the issues and the cliques are still the same. Actually the only cast members clothing that didn't go out of style is the nerds clothes. (Nerd never goes out of style) Anyway, John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds the usual groups of high school students a jock, a metalhead a weirdo, a princess, and a nerd sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. But man it gets painful when they see themselves for they really are, and they see that none of them is better than the other. This film has a positive message (except for having sex and smoking to be cool) and should be viewed buy anyone who has taste. If you don't like this movie, then you're already dead.
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