The Breakfast Club

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Summary: Great Movie - the DVD is MONO
Review: They couldn't even manage a Stereo release? Save your money until they come out with a worth while product. The movie has a lot of good songs and some great background soundtrack music, in mono it would sound worse that the butchered version they play on basic cable.

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Summary: the serious side of John Hughes
Review: This movie is about Saturday morning detention shared by the following characters: Andrew, a wrestler, Brian, a brain, John, a criminal, Claire, a prom queen, and Alison, a basket case. Andrew is a troubled athlete who's having trouble with his sports oriented dad, Brian is a troubled brain who's parents fight with him about his grades, John has problems with his parents who push him around, Claire is also troubled by her parents who use her to get back at each other and is also troubled by her friends because she's so rich she goes with everything they say, and Alison is astrange little lady who's ignored by her her parents does funny things to be noticed. The movie has also a silly side which is mostly from John and Alison. The students learn about each other and finally by the end of detention they've clung to each other have become good friends. This movie has serious laughs in it which includes John's famous qoute," does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?" Now I've said what's left to say go and rent it.

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Summary: Original and a true '80s classic.
Review: THE BREAKFAST CLUB is one of those rare '80s unknown film gems. It's right up there with '80s films like DEAD POETS SOCIETY and FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I saw it in high school sophomore year and absolutely loved it. The cast is just stunning from Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Anthony Michael Hall. My favorite character is probabaly Hall's character, "the brain". I'd give this movie ten stars if I could! This movie is about four very different high school students who all end up together in Saturday detention for different reasons. At first they dislike each other and harass each other, but as the movie goes on, they learn how to have fun even in Saturday detention and how to appreciate each other's differences while they discuss to each other why they got detention. I think anybody who's been to high school (no matter what generation you went to high school in) can relate to this movie in some way or another. And anyone who's gone to high school must see THE BREAKFAST CLUB. I strongly recommend that you buy this DVD today - it's a movie you'll want to treasure and watch over and over again!

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Summary: I love this movie!!!!
Review: If you've never seen this movie, i pity you. this is my absolute favorite movie. the cussing, the adult drama, and the real situations are the best and i love this movie because it portrays life as it is.
5 people are stranded in a saturday detention: the preppy jock(emilio estevez), the nerdy brain (anthony michael hall-i love u!), the demented basket cast (ally sheedy), the preppy princess (molly ringwald), and the rebel/criminal/metalhead (judd nelson).through there adventures and escapades they discover their differences are not so vast and they are much more alike than they thought.

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Summary: BEST FILM OF ALL TIME!
Review: This is a film that everyone should see. It was very entertaining. the actors were great and enjoyable. Now i know why this movie is always repeatedly shown on networks like TBS, TNT, and the WB. It is a classic that people of all future generations would like. This is a film that you would want to see over and over again (seriously, IT'S THAT GOOD!).
BUY IT NOW!

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Summary: 2 thumbs down
Review: I found John Hughes' 1985 movie The Breakfast Club to be an extremely generalized, heavy handed, piece of trite filmmaking that may or may not have been relevant to teenagers fifteen years ago, but is certainly nowhere near on target now.
Obviously it was by design that his five main characters were one-dimensional character sketches of so-called 'traditional' high school stereotypes. You have Andy the jock (Emilio Estevez), Claire the princess (Molly Ringwald, a John Hughes staple), Bender the criminal (Judd Nelson), Brian the nerd (Anthony Michael Hall), and Allison the basket case (Ally Sheedy). In my opinion, for Hughes to insinuate that these five people come from completely different backgrounds and had absolutely no contact with each other or anyone else from their particular 'type' during school is just plain silly. For example, it is quite likely that Claire and Andy, being popular people, would know each other, or at least that princesses and jocks would interact on a regular basis. Same thing goes for Bender and Allison as social outcasts. Only Brian, being the brain, would logically be shunned by all other classes.
For another thing, these categories have little relevance today because in today's modern society, and indeed this has always been true, teens simply cannot be categorized and labeled, even by their peers, in this manner. I myself saw elements of my personality in every one of the characters, and neither I nor anyone I know would fit neatly into these stereotypes.
The last thing I'm going to gripe about in this review is, logically enough, the ending. For a film that tried so hard to be edgy, the denouement was awfully hackneyed and predictable. Four out of the five characters hook up at the end? Gosh, I never saw that coming! Also, the treatment of Allison was laughable. This girl has serious psychological issues that have been with her all her life, but all she needs is a little makeup, a nice dress, and a clean-cut boyfriend to set her to rights? I don't think so, pal. Willful suspension of disbelief is all fine and good, but to trivialize Allison's pain and emotional trauma in this manner is irresponsible and does a disservice to those young people who do identify with her character. I think that's enough bashing for this film; while it had its moments, it certainly is by no means the 'classic' that it is reputed to be.

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Summary: A 1980s Classic
Review: This is John Hughes's masterpiece. It starts by making you think you are watching a typical high school screwball comedy with a crusty old dean and a janitor, then draws you into an intelligent five-handed set piece that would not look out of place on the West End stage. Emilio Estevez distinguishes himself as a fine actor, no just a pretty face, and Molly Ringwald performs well as Hughes's alter ego, the everyman character that pervades his 1980s films. There's some funny bits, some serious bits, a couple of sad bits, and a wonderful central set taking the shape of a huge library designed, not for keeping or reading books in, but to be a stage for this play to be performed in. The supporting players all turn in good performances, and the music is pleasantly diverting when it's needed.

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Summary: One of the Best 80s Movies
Review: The Breakfast Club has to be one of the best movies of the 80s and of all time. I think the thing about this movie that everyone likes is that they can identify with one of the characters or more! (That would be the athlete, the princess, the basket case, the brain, and the criminal.) I think the best performance has to be Judd Nelson as Bender, the criminal, but the other actors give great performances as well. (I liked Emilio Estevez as Andrew's breakdown when he confesses what he did to get into detention.) The movie is about five different people who have to spend a Saturday in detention for different reasons. At first they are hostile towards each other, but soon they open up and share their feelings about their parents, friends, and each other. This movie isn't the laugh out loud funny (i.e. "Tommy Boy", "Billy Madison"), but it's still very funny. It does have a lot of swearing, for that is the only reason it's rated R. If you're not a fan of the swearing, the TV version does cut down a lot on that. I still think the original movie version is the best though. The director is John Hughes, the mastermind behind movies like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Weird Science". I hope you read this review and decide to see the movie, you will definetly not be disappointed!

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Summary: This movie is a classic.
Review: This movie is not real. I don't think that it was ever intended to be that. What you get is actors playing students who are forced to address issues relevent to youth of any generation while confined for a day. No this would probably not happen in real life but as I said before, I dont think that is really an issue. I think that "brilliant" is a far overused term nowadays but I will label this film as such. There is a little bit of everything in this movie drama, humor, suspense, and even terror albeit minute. Each of the characters represents someone of some class that you can find in any secondary school setting so no one is felt left out. I really believe this was a powerful film and represents what filmakers in the 80's were really capable of when they put their minds to it. The message, however probably would go right over the heads of children nowadays who have been brainwashed to believe that if it came from the 80's it sucked.

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Summary: pure unrefined magic
Review: the breakfast club, now 15 or so years later is undoubtably a true classic, and is often quickly recognized as an absolute force of nostalgia that emanates from the depicted era but also one that trancends all barriers, distinctions and emotions. such conclusions seem to even be immediately agreed upon by recent first time viewers who are helping define it's timelessness. TBC is special and 95 percent of the perople that have seen it seem to agree. it is an indisputable gem. the consequential debate lies not in whether this is a great movie but rather in how real it is or even what about it is relatable to reality and what is just wonderfully executed fantasy. i will set the record straight by saying TBC does not even come close to mirroring reality in any of the intricacies of its its plot or it's characters. it's great storytelling ::: a great senario that would never actually play out the way that it was portrayed on screen. but that's what movies are all about ::: unattainable bliss. what is real about TBC is its resonating nostalgia and surging emotion ::: the triumph and the memories. this is what everyone relates to, not the inconcievable storyline that cant' help over-riffing on fantasy, happy endings and a perfect destiny. TBC is a fairytail, it just happens to be really good one that will last forever.