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The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club

ComedyDrama

7.724/10

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98 min

Release Date: 1985-02-15

Overview - Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

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Universal PicturesA&M FilmsChannel Productions

Overview - Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

User Reviews

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SierraKiloBravo

6/10

Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/tCnm1BN1iAs The brain, the athlete, the princess, the basket case, and the criminal - yes we’re talking about _The Breakfast Club_. It’s been dubbed as a seminal film of the 1980s and takes a place as an intergenerational classic. _They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together...

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Wuchak

Wuchak

4/10

_**Forced, artificial dialogs with eye-rolling character arcs**_ Released in 1985 and written & directed by John Hughes, "The Breakfast Club" is a teen dramedy about five high school students from five different sub-cultures during an all-day detention over the weekend at their suburban Chicago school. Molly Ringwald plays the popular girl, Emilio Estevez the jock, Anthony Michael Hall the Brai...

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Rob

Rob

9/10

An absolute classic, and no mistake. If you disagree, sorry, you're wrong. John Hughes was an utter genius.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/10

I'd struggle to recall any other of Judd Nelson's films, but in this he really does shine. He's the obvious recalcitrant amongst five teenage youths who have been dragged into school on a Saturday for some seemingly rather pointless detention. This is manna from heaven for their headmaster "Vernon" (Paul Gleason), who takes pleasure in exercising his gradually dwindling authority over his charges....

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Margot Maritz

Margot Maritz

I absolutely love this film. When I saw that Ster-Kinekor was having a throwback screening, I immediately went to book my tickets to see it on the big screen. I still think The Breakfast Club is an incredible film, and the core message it presents remains deeply important and relevant even today. I love the premise: a group of seemingly random students in detention: the jock, the emo kid, th...

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