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Judd Nelson
Emilio Estevez
Anthony Michael Hall
Molly Ringwald
Ally Sheedy
Paul Gleason

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A group of diverse high school student spend detention together and find out they have a lot more in common than they ever thought.

08/02/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Brat Pack at it's best!!

The way I judge the true quality and greatness of a movie is if I still find it as or more enjoyable today as I did when I first saw it. The Breakfast Club falls into that category. There's a reason that Entertainment Weekly listed this as the NUMBER ONE teenage movie of all time. I just saw this movie again a week ago, and was just as into it as I was in 1985. While it obviously has the dated 80s look in some of the characters (that's the way they looked back then; they can't help it) and music, the core theme of the film still resonates today.

It's about a group of disjointed, confused, and outcast youths who, in one way or another, are trapped by the circumstances of their schoolhouse cliques, family lives, and by themselves. But on one Saturday morning and afternoon while they are ...

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3.5/4 

07/31/2009 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

I won't forget about you

We see it as we want to see it — in the simplest terms, the most convenient definition: The Breakfast Club is the best high school movie of all time. It may lack the scope of its peers — the drinking, the driving, the listless loitering in parking lots — as well as any scenes that actually take place during school. But if hell is other people — and high school is hell — then John Hughes is the genre's Sartre, and this is his No Exit. The concept is simple: one Saturday detention, five unhappy teens, and their scramble to prove they're each something more than a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), an athlete (Emilio Estevez), a basket case (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a criminal (Judd Nelson). Following the farcical fluff of Sixteen Candles, the issues Hughes explored — sex, d...

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4/4 

04/23/2009 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Hughes' masterpiece comes in at #49

Talk about standing the test of time...almost a quarter of century later it still ranks as one of my all time favorites...coming in at #49 and one of only two comedies in my Top 50. It is John Hughes' masterpiece that all his other works try to compare too and fail at. Conversely so have all other teen movie comedies since (although Napoleon Dynamite (2004) gave a nice effort). Make no mistake this is Nelsons' movie and I never felt he got enough credit for his work in the movie. Sure, everyone else is great in it...but they follow his lead and would seem lost without him. This is a movie that I think will still be as enjoyable 25 more years down the road as it is now.

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4/4