The Breakfast Club

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Director: John Hughes

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

Year: 1984 Running Time: 97 mins Rating:

John Hughes put the Brat Pack on the map with this simple but fiendishly entertaining story of five high-schoolers who bond and bicker to dispel the boredom of a Saturday spent in detention. Molly Ringwald is the popularity queen, Emilio Estevez the jock, Ally Sheedy the goth, Anthony Michael Hall the nerd, and Judd Nelson the bad boy. As usual, Hughes jams the locker with comedy, pathos and an anthemic 80s soundtrack.

Review

Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall play bolshie high school students who are stuck in detention one Saturday morning and forced to confront issues about their lives. John Hughes' essential Eighties Brat Pack aims high, is often perceptive and is filled with funny and smart moments. Hughes wrote the screenplay to the film, which was originally called The Lunch Bunch, in just two days. Filmed entirely in sequence, it originally ran about two and a half hours, but was cut by a nervous film studio to 97 minutes and became a major hit.