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Summary: Frikandel
Review: This is the movie that altered my life, and miss Notley's also. Dima didn't know about it but that's no surprise, she has noclue about teen-culture in the eighties. Breakfastclub brings back fond memories of day spent thinkin we were cool and mattered. Thanks for this line up - xxx Ms Nots and Heine!!!PS: We live in Amsterdam and like it but we will soon move to Prinsengracht!!!!! The club says hi!!!! PPS: It wasn't as good as Ferris Bueler
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Summary: One Of The Greatest Teen Movies Of All Time.
Review: What do a jock, a princess,a basketcase,a nerd,and a criminal have in common?Why absolutely nothing,of course,but they can still have a life experience when they meet each other,right?Sure,it sounds stupid,but John Hughes can change your mind with this '80's classic.All things aside,all the actors give their best performances since...well,since ever!Molly Ringwald gives a great performance as a bittersweet daddy's girl(the princess),Emilio Estevez is phenomenal as the football player who is overpushed by his dad(the jock),Anthony Michael Hall is hilarious,as usual(the nerd),Judd Nelson probably does the best acting out of the bunch(the criminal),and everyone I know loves the basketcase(Alison Sweeney).And,the villain of the movie(the principal),is great as the (...) who's sick of his job.The greatness of this movie,though,is the perfect balancing of comedy and drama in here.I mean,all these students come in here,thinking they are never going to survive with these "less important" groups in their way,but come out being best friends after hours of crying and letting out stuff they needed to let out a long time ago;it's amazing how much the jock,the princess,the basketcase(who later changes into a pretty girl),the nerd,and the criminal change throughout the whole movie.And the criminal is maybe the best one in the whole movie,showing that "hoodlums"(as people call them)hurt,too,and are not just doing bad things for a good time,which really needed to be showcased at that time period. Flaws:One of the outcomes are really shallow(Emilio Estevez's character all of a sudden falling in love with Alison Sweeney's characters after she pretties herself up),and this is really only intended for people who were teens in the '80's and later.Oh,and the film is EXTREMELY easy to make fun of,which may not really be a flaw after all. The Verdict:A teen classic that is in most young people's "Top Ten Favorite Films" lists. Recommended:Yes
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Summary: A Great Movie For Teens
Review: Another great film produced by John Hughes. The Breakfast club was released in 1985 but is still a classic today. This film is about five very different high school students from 5 very different crowds who all end up in detention together. Each of these students is played by well known actors like Molly Ringlwald, Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson. Through the courses of the movie, not only do the students learn something about one another and learn to ignore the usual social barriers that contain them, they each also learn something very important about themselves. This movie has excellent acting, storyline and script. I'd recommend The Breakfast Club to both highschoolers and college students alike. Four stars.
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Summary: "eat my shorts, WHAT WAS THAT?!? EAT.......MY.......SHORTS"
Review: The breakfast club is by far one of the most funniest movies i have ever seen this movie right here is one of my personal favorites i mean i could watch this movie foreverit just keeps getting funnier everytime i see it there is just something about this film that makes me like it and makes me want to see it again u know how many times i have rented this puppy about 14 times untill i couldnt take it anymore and i bought this beauty i could watch this movie forever im serious. because it was just such a excellent movie. I brought this movie to school one day so we could watch it in our class everyone loved it and everyone was laughing their heads off . I highly recommend this film to anyone. No wait a minute, Im serious here, I STRONGLY, HIGHLY,HONESTLY,SERIOUSLY,TRUTHFULLY RECOMEND this movie to anyone. THIS MOVIE ROCKS!
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Summary: High School
Review: I love this movie. It's great because it takes the all too familiar cliché archetypes that people face. More then likely you can fine a character to relate to because the movie has high school figured out really good.
It's not one of those movies that glamorizes high school and the teenage years.
While it does make fun of it, there is a strange serious side to clichés, and trying to break those boundaries.
Awesome movie to watch, no matter how many times you have seen it.
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Summary: THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Review: When it comes to movies, there are two things that the early-to-mid-1980s are best known for: slasher films and teen comedies. While the former category was hard-pressed to give birth to a vaguely watchable entry, quality was widely variable in the latter, spanning the spectrum from the dregs of Porky's to the top-notch entertainment of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. One of the most consistent writer/directors to contribute to the '80s teen fad was John Hughes (the man who would later scale the heights of box-office prosperity with Home Alone). In one way or another, Hughes was responsible for the likes of Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and The Breakfast Club. (...) The Breakfast Club was arguably the most insightful and emotionally-true of them. The Breakfast Club is very different from almost every other entry into what was (at the time) a burgeoning genre. Instead of relying on the staples of bare flesh, crass humor, and brainless plots, this movie focuses on five dissimilar characters, is almost entirely dialogue-driven(...). It's a story about communication gaps, teen isolation, and the angst that everyone (regardless of how self-assured they seem) experiences during the years that function as a transition from the freedom of adolescence to the responsibilities of adulthood. Even though the premise sounds a little dry, The Breakfast Club is eminently watchable and consistently entertaining, even when it falters. Perhaps aware that his primary audience would be the 14-to-18 year-old crowd, Hughes added several surreal and silly sequences to interrupt the predominantly serious tone that suffuses the proceedings. These don't really work, but the shift in tone isn't sufficiently glaring to disturb the movie's overall flow. The Breakfast Club is a small group of high school students, who, during the course of a nine-hour Saturday detention, are transformed from complete strangers to confidantes. For each of them, it is an unforgettable day, and, while the friendships they form between 7 am and 4 pm may disintegrate once they get back into the real world, feelings are explored and emotions unearthed that give them insights into their own lives and the forces that drive the others. These are the kinds of realizations which, if more high school students understood them, might make grades nine through twelve a little less traumatic. The characters trapped in detention are all very different individuals. Hughes sets them up as traditional stereotypes, then delights in slowly peeling back the layers, showing how each suffers from surprisingly similar problems. There's the jock, wrestling star Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez); the most popular girl in school, Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald); the all-brains, no- brawn geek, Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall); the rebel without a cause, John Bender (Judd Nelson); and the outcast, Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy). It turns out that none of them communicates well with their parents, all are under tremendous pressure from their peers, and each is beset by angst about the future. Pretty obvious observations, right? Yet few films before or after have dealt with these issues as intelligently as The Breakfast Club. Another traditional Hughes theme can be seen running throughout the entire film: the basic intolerance and stupidity of adults. This is evident in several ways, from the obvious (a nasty teacher, played by Paul Gleason, who revels in his power) to the subtle (the children dreading the possibility that they might grow up to become like their parents). The over-25 crowd rarely fares well in Hughes movies, and this is no exception, but there is a scene in The Breakfast Club which attempts (with limited success) to partially humanize The Authority Figure. Hughes has assembled a unique and singularly effective cast. Emilio Estevez, although a little too old to play a high school teenager (he was 22 at the time of filming), does a good job presenting the human side of the athlete on a pedestal. Judd Nelson, also a little on the old side (age 24), is believable as the James Dean-type who is looking for some kind of acceptance and uses his pugnaciousness as a defense mechanism. Molly Ringwald, the star of three Hughes films (the other two being Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink), gives the strongest performance by showing the ugly, shallow side of being Ms. Popularity. Ally Sheedy is suitably weird as a compulsive liar and thief who takes a long time to open up. Anthony Michael Hall looks the part of the geek, but, of the five lead actors, his is the least impressive portrayal; Brian has trouble escaping from the stereotypical sinkhole in which he begins the movie. Few will argue that The Breakfast Club is a great film, but it has a candor that is unexpected and refreshing in a sea of too-often generic teen-themed films. The material is a little talky (albeit not in a way that will cause anyone to confuse it with something by Eric Rohmer), but it's hard not to be drawn into the world of these characters. The depiction of high school is evocative because it's so accurate (an actual suburban Illinois high school was used as the filming location). Unlike many teen films, which seem to transpire in some kid's dirty imagination, this picture, despite its occasional flights of fancy, is grounded in reality. In The Breakfast Club, Hughes has created a surprisingly enduring motion picture that is still effective 13 years after its theatrical debut.
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Summary: LIGHT-HEARTED GLIMPSE OF SERIOUS, UNIVERSAL THEMES
Review: While I don't proclaim the Breakfast Club to be a masterpiece or "the best movie ever" or anything quite as seminal as that, it certainly deserves appreciation for its originality. Here was a film that presents five students who initially come across as cardboard cliches, but who eventually reveal themselves as so much more. The writing is sharp and crisp, and apart from a few patches of overdone juvenile behavior, the dialogue flows seamlessly. Sure, the movie has its warts. Parents are the root of all the kids' problems; there are annoying lapses in logic (like how does Ringwald get to see Nelson at the end and Sheedys character wasn't assigned detention, so wouldn't Gleason know that) and there is a somewhat prolonged but inconsequential dance sequence smooshed in. Yet, twenty two years on, the movie still rings as true as ever because school life remains essentially the same -- same sorts of conflict between generations, private fears often undisclosed to the outside world, worries about their futures nagging them, etc etc. A truly enjoyable, clever brat-pack character study. Special highlight -- the popular Simple Minds number "Don't You Forget About Me".
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Summary: greatest 80's movie ever made!
Review: Now I have to admit to all of you children of the 80's....I was born in 1991. Althought most of my generation listens to what MTV and the dreaded Z1077 tell them to, and watches American Idol and horrible movies like "bring it on" I myself have chosen to be different. i listen to rock and roll and 80's music and my favorite movies are ones that most of them have never seen in their entire lives...that is until they interact with me...so This is my review for my all-time favorite movie besides "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest",....drumroll please....THE FABULOUS "BREAKFAST CLUB!"
well for a brief overview of the plot there is the brain named Brian (Anthony Micheal Hall) the pretty popular girl Claire (Molly Ringwald), the rebel-metelhead-criminal guy, who happens to be my favorite of the bunch, John Bender (Judd Nelson), the jock Andrew (Emilio Estivez), and of course our favorite psychopath-basketcase (well..not including jack nicholson in the shining) Alison! (ally sheedy). well anyways these 5 completely opposite people all have saturday detention and of course when u put 5 people like that in a room together obviously something is going to occur..right. Now...this is my favorite movie because number 1) it has Bender in it god! i just love that guy 2) it has all the emotions rolled into one! it can be funny, sad, inspiring...etc...etc...and 3) it is just FUN! and the best teen film ever made!!
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Summary: Good movie but a lousy DVD
Review: I love this movie but the DVD is kind of dissapointing. This is looked today as a pretty well known movie it really should have more than what is on here. Somewhere in a vault The Featurette is sitting around somewhere it really should be seen or how about at least a theatrical trailer or how about some commentary by John Hughes he did it for Ferris Bueller's day off and years ago there were some music videos with the songs that were in the film back in 1985 they should release those too I just named about 5 different great qualities that the studio could easily put together so why don't they do it and make this version of the dvd out of print because all you get here is the movie.
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Summary: Sheedy shines
Review: In this brilliant film.It tells the story of 5 totally opposite
high school students Ally Sheedy(the basket case) Anthony Michael Hall(the brain) Molly Ringwald(the princess) Judd Nelson
(the criminal) and Emilio Estevez (the athlete) who all have to
spend a saturday in detension.To begin with they have nothing in
common but by the end of the day they have bared their souls to each other. An absolute classic,i cannot recommend this highly enough. This is one of my fav films and i hope u enjoy it. Ally Sheedy shines as the crazy one but everyone in this film is brilliant.
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