Genre: Drama/ Comedy
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 1985
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason, John Kapelos
Description: 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.
Review: “The Breakfast Club” is a high school film with actual characters, a dose of humor and even a bit of drama. For me, a classic.
On a Saturday morning five students of a high school have to stay for detention. The frustrated teacher Richard Vernon tells them to stay in the library, sit still, don’t talk and write an essay about who they are. The five students are all very different and all run in different friend circles: The rebel John Bender, sports jock Andrew Clark, nerd Brian Johnson, outsider Allison Reynolds and princess Claire Standish.
Although the students aren’t allowed to talk or move, they disobey the rules. The five get to know each other better and find out that they aren’t that different after all. The characters have depth and chemistry, you feel like part of the small group. It’s probably the best high school film ever made and it inspired many other movies. In almost every film or TV show the stereotypes introduced in “The Breakfast Club” are used.
“The Breakfast Club” is a great film, that influenced a lot of other movies in the genre.
Rating: 5/ 5
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