80s Movie Review - The Breakfast Club

Director: John Hughes
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

In the Picture: The Characters from "The Breakfast Club

One of those 80's movies. Love 80's movies! Not a lot spectacular happens here, but I love the character development. So this movie is perfect for this item.

Andrew Clark
Played by: Emilio Estevez
Andrew is the jock, the athlete, the cool sports guy. His father wants him to do well in sports and thinks this is the only thing Andrew can do.

John Bender
Played by: Judd Nelson
Bender is a rebel or a criminal as many call him. He is feared, but it’s only a shell he’s hiding in. His home life isn’t all that great, his dad is abusive, so this is how he compensates.

Claire Standish
Played by: Molly Ringwald
Claire is called the princess, because she only cares about appearance. But deep inside there is an insecure girl just trying to make it in this world. Claire is actually sick of what other people think of her and having to do whatever her friends do.

Brian Johnson
Played by: Anthony Michael Hall
Brian is the ‘nerd’, but he’s just a very smart guy with a good heart. He gets nervous when he scores under an A and is a member of the chess club, math club and physics club.

Allison Reynolds
Played by: Ally Sheedy
Allison is the invisible girl, the crazy one. She has weird habits, like how she eats a sandwich, but she also has a creative talent. The reason she doesn’t socialize is because her connection with her parents is also very distant.

Favorite Character: John Bender