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Summary: Essential Viewing For Any Child Of The 80¿s
Review: Five teenagers from different walks of life are all forced to endure a whole Saturday in high school detention. A simple premise for a movie that defined a generation. This movie is so much more than the sum of its parts. You can associate with these characters, because you went to high school with people just like them. It brings back all the tribulations of how awkward growing up was. It also challenges our generation to overlook society's labels and appreciate our peers for who they really are. The acting from the Brat-Packers is all very believable, and the comedy they portray comes across just as well as the drama. The music also goes very well with the film. Definitely worth seeing if you lived in the 80's.
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Summary: If you can't do it, teach it...
Review: An exceptional movie and one of John's most coherent attacks on the school system. While TBC is about growing up and the human tendency to robotically judge others based on bogus assumptions, it is the psychotic teacher and what he represents who stands out above everything.Like John Hughes, I have never had any confidence in the school system, and in my own experience (admittedly at an all-male grammar school), male teachers fall into four basic groups... 1. Bullies.
2. Pedophiles.
3. Cowards, who are afraid to go out and work in the real world.
4. The tiny number for whom teaching is a passion. The only decent teachers (and they do exist) come from the latter group. The goose-stepping thug who runs the detention in The Breakfast Club is at least a #1. The script is excellent and it is a joy to watch the relationships between the five kids unfold. It is a fitting climax that the teacher's divide and conquer tactics fail miserably as the students find a natural unity based on common experience and a common purpose. The movies that followed in the wake of TBC, such as Ferris, were all classics and unashamedly heavy on the comedy. Breakfast Club is necessarily much more serious, yet it too has many highly entertaining moments. Yep, it could be time to start your John Hughes library, people.
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Summary: Don't you forget about me. Don't worry, we won't.
Review: This is it, the one and only. This is the cornerstone of all eighties movies, fresh with its witty humor, solid message, and fine collection of young eighties stars. It is the story of five kids, five very different kids and the day they were forced to spend together in Saturday detention. We have Judd Nelson as the punk, or at that time, stoner boy; Molly Ringwald as the school princess; Emilio Estevez as the super jock; Anthony Michael Hall as the nerd; and Ally Sheedy as the no-name freak. It's quite a collection and, with the smart and sassy script, creates one of Hollywood's most engrossing films of the eighties and beyond. If there is a remote chance you haven't seen this movie via TNT, Blockbuster, or TBS, I highly recommend this flick. It is funny, sad, intriguing, and most of all, is the hallmark of every eighties teen film, surpassing even the likes of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and yes, even Fast Times at Ridgemont High. You can't go wrong with The Breakfast Club. Be warned, though, there are plenty of vulgar words and sexual innuendos in this film but hey, that just comes with the territory. Note: this film also provides one of the greatest eighties songs of all time, Don't You Forget About Me by the Simple Minds. ENJOY!!
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Summary: They Don't Make Kids Like This Any More
Review: If you've, uh, like ever heard, like, kids these days and they, you know, like talk among themselves and that sort of thing, like visiting or some stuff like that, can you, I mean, you know what I mean, do you ever hear them, uh, you know, talk like the five kids in this show, you know, with, like coherent sentences that have subjects and verbs and, like, uh, even adjectives and that sort of thing, you know? I mean -- you know what I mean? -- like when some of them answered questions to the others and everything was, like, in whole sentences, and nobody, uh, ever stammered around and like got off the subject or anything like that, you know. I guess that's because all these teenagers, uh, were like 22 years old or something, but I really like liked the movie, you know.
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Summary: the best teen movie ever!
Review: I was born the year this movie came out. But I think it has to be the best teen movie ever. Don't get me wrong I liked american pie and 10 things I hate about you, but american pie was just funny no serious stuff. and that is the problem with new teen movies. or if they try to be as good as this one dramatically the acting is horrible. but this movie is perfect the funny things like when bender makes fun of mr. vernon. to when all 5 teens are sitting in the circle confessing things and what not. so if you are a teen who doesn't seem to get enough out of newer teen movies i highly reccomend this one.
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Summary: Excellency!
Review: This movie is possibly one of the best movie ever made! It anticipates 5 teenagers who come in a detention on Saturday and look at one another differently. They spend the day getting to know eachother, revealing secrets about themselves that they wouldn't have told anyone else, and passing through emotions. This movie stars Emilio Estevez (The Outsiders, St. Elmo's Fire), Judd Nelson (The Transformers, St. Elmo's Fire), Molly Ringwald (Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink), Ally Sheedy (Bad Boys, St. Elmo's Fire), and Anthony Michael Hall (Sixteen Candles, Weird Science).
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Summary: An Honesty Portrayal of What the Teens Think and Feel
Review: John Hughes hit the nail on the head with this dynamic and thoughtful presentation about teen angst. The Brat Pack does an excellent job of reminding us of all the cliques in high school and why we hated them so much, including our own. The movie is set, for the most part, in the high school library where our protagonists are all held together on a Saturday detention. Over the course of nine long hours of killing time, the brain, the jock, the princess, the troublemaker and the recluse all discover that, deep down, they really are not all that different from each other: they all want to be popular, athletic, smart, rebellious and also to be left alone. The antoganist, they discover, is not each other, but the high school principal, and his myopic view that kids would all be little angels if they just wrote an essay on who they really are. "The Breakfast Club" is a treat for any age group from pre-teen to adult. You will see yourself in this film, no matter when you went to high-school. The language is coarse, the teen personalities are vulgar and the high school principal is the person we all hated but grew up to be anyway. The DVD quality of this film is very good. Although the film was shot in the early 80's and the library and furniture will look very dated, the dialogue and the angst the teens face is not bound in time. The extras on the DVD are fairly good, and the sound quality is excellent. This film will survive the test of time. So get it for your quintessential DVD collection. History will hold that this will become a classic.
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Summary: OMG I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
Review: "Dear Mr.Vernon,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice an entire Saturday in detention for what we did wrong, and what we did was wrong but we think you're crazy for making us write a essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the most simplest terms, the most convient defintions you see us a brain, an athlete, and a basketcase, a Princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerly yours, The Breakfast club." -One of the most remembered movie speeches ever. My title should sum up my love of this movie. I saw it 2 years ago and have watched it at least 1 million times since then, i'm actually amazed my copy hasn't worn out. It stars the fabulous cast Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy, as Andrew "The athlete", Brian "The Brain", John Bender "The criminal", Claire"The Princess", and Allison "The basketcase" respectively. The cast works fablously together and at times you feel you're right there with them. At first they can't go five minutes without arguing (especially Bender and Andrew) but by the end of the day they have laughed and cried and know each other in way no one else will ever know them. My only dissapointment with the dvd (and the reason why I didn't give it 5 stars) is because I was a bit dissapointed with the special features part of the dvd, While the production notes were nice I am dissapointed there were no trailer or deleted scenes (I know there must be some since I have heard Judd Nelson say they shot over 4 hrs worth of film and since there are 2 scenes that are in the tv version of the film but not in the dvd or Vhs release) My BIG HOPE (John Hughes and Universal pictures are you listening?!) is that for the 20th anniversary which is approaching is that there will be a special edition dvd released and the film be rereleased in theateres (PLEASE NO REMAKE!!) I would LOVE a Sequel made but unfortunately I think the "Brat pack" label unfairly bestowed on the actors messed that up but hey we fans can dream right?
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Summary: A Pivotal Drama of Teenage Struggle
Review: This is quite possibly one of the finest movies ever made. I felt every second of angst, every laugh, every tear of these characters. John Hughes is not only known for writing gag movies like "Weird Science" and "National Lampoon's Vacation," but he's famous for his journeys into the teenage psyche. He knows how teenagers talk (or at least how they talked in 1985) and the kinds of pressures they deal with.
John Bender (a brilliant Judd Nelson) is the badass. His abusive past gives him a rough exterior but a fragile interior. Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall) is the geek, dying to belong with the popular crowd but committed to being smart. Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald), the prom queen every girl hated in high school, becomes aware of her own snobbery and learns how much she hurts others by being spoiled. Emilio Estevez plays jock Andrew Clark who tries to please his old man by always being a winner. Finally, Ally Sheedy does a wonderful job playing Allison Reynolds, a crazy outsider who just wants someone to pay attention to her.
The language is raw, the emotions are real, and the camaraderie between the characters is one of those bonds that is never forgotten. They learn that they have some things in common, most obviously a hatred for the principal and the school system. If you are an adult, watch this film to remember what being young was like. If you are a teenager, you can relate to the demons each character has inside. If you're a kid, you're not supposed to be watching this movie. You'll only understand it when you rediscover it at age 15. That's what happened to me. I've seen this movie so many times and it still hits me every viewing.
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Summary: The archetypal teen movie of the 1980s
Review: The Breakfast Club is probably the archetypal movie of the 1980s, at least that of the youth in America. It is an indelible part of cultural history and remains as fresh and brash as ever today. While teenagers can certainly not be broken down into five distinct types, the five students forced to spend their Saturday at school in detention do a pretty good job of covering the basics. You have Claire, the popular prom queen type, played by the wonderful Molly Ringwald, the jock (Emilio Estevez), the brain (Anthony Michael Hall), the weirdo (Alley Sheedy), and the disrespectful criminal (Judd Nelson)--five students who are complete strangers to each other and totally different personalities. Terrorizing and threatening them is an older teacher intent on enforcing discipline among them. The criminal is determined to foment an insurrection, and eventually the strict supervision of the students breaks down. At first, the students yell at and fight with one another and are especially antagonistic toward the juvenile delinquent among them. As the day progresses, the students begin to tell their own stories--who they are, why they are in detention, etc. Their conversations weave back and forth between insults and incriminations and words of sympathy and concern. They eventually start roaming the school halls, leading to the classic scenes of them skidding across the halls in a mad flight to return to the library before the teacher returns to check on them. Somehow, the five eventually do open up to each other, confessing secrets, forming friendships, and realizing that the problems they considered their own are shared to some degree with each other. This is a great movie and one that appealed directly to young people--everyone can understand problems with overbearing or neglectful parents, grades, peer pressure, drugs, etc. I must say that I sometimes felt the changes between hateful exchanges and sympathetic dialogue came a little abruptly, though; I for one never saw any redeeming quality in Judd Nelson's character. I also couldn't believe some of the destruction that was done to school property over the course of the day. Anthony Michael Hall was brilliant in his role and provided some very funny moments, but I as a former brain did not see much of myself in him. The real point of the film, though, is that teenagers all have problems they must deal with, that the folks not in your little group or clique are just as human as you are and worthy of respect, and that adults seemingly just cannot understand their kids for the most part, and that very fact only heightens the need for teenagers to depend on one another. I should also mention the music. "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds was perhaps the most-played song of the entire decade, and it is rightly associated forever with this movie. Also, whenever you hear the famous whistling tune from this movie (and we've all heard it countless times since 1985, a fact which by itself demonstrates the much-deserved popularity of this movie over the years), you will not forget about The Breakfast Club.
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