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The Breakfast Club
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
18 February 1968, Roseville, California, USA
8 March 1956, London, Ontario, Canada
1948, Massachusetts, USA
1978
4 May 1939, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
14 April 1968, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
28 November 1959, Portland, Maine, USA
12 May 1962, New York City, New York, USA
July 27, 2007
In nine hours of threatening, bickering and, eventually, poignant (but never maudlin) self-revelation, the stereotypes dissolve and re-form.
March 23, 2015
Rarely have on-screen teens felt this authentic. They bluster, bicker and trade horrible insults (whence the film's R rating), then suddenly expose their most guarded feelings.
September 16, 2013
[VIDEO ESSAY] The movie captures teenagers' innate ability to defeat authority figures, and their own misconceptions about themselves.
March 22, 2015
...doesn't just remember or understand what it's like to be a teenager. The Breakfast Club embodies the experience.
March 26, 2015
Molière's most famous work, Tartuffe, is about a pious fraud who turns out to be a criminal... The joke is that Bender is a criminal fraud who turns out to be pious.
November 09, 2015
Hughes may deserve more plaudits as a social worker than a filmmaker, but you have to admit his hokey situation plays. The reason is the five terrific young actors, who bring more conviction to these parts than they perhaps deserve.
January 19, 2014
an awakening
March 23, 2015
Nothing really changes. You hear nothing you haven't heard before. But you know that for them it is happening for the first time, and they deserve compassion. I'm not sure that's a good enough reason to see "The Breakfast Club."
February 13, 2015
While meticulously drawn, the film's characters are so stereotypically representative that only the lamest of moviegoers will not determine their respective backgrounds and problems long before the plodding movie does.
February 13, 2016
Hughes has a wonderful knack for communicating the feelings of teenagers, as well as an obvious rapport with his exceptional cast - who deserve top grades.
December 11, 2015
Had something to say about being an adult and how the lessons we learned as a teenager would carry us in to adulthood, for better and for worse.