The Breakfast Club

Name: The Breakfast Club
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1985-02-15
Duration: 98 min

They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.

19851h 38mcritics 7.7/10

Comedy Drama

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

starring Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall

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Read from 108 comments (57 from Reddit, 46 from Metacritic, 5 from TMDB reviews) — 21 of them described how it moves.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Warm most of the way through. It tightens hardest in the last stretch. Marked above the line: 1 that landed as a blow, 1 that got a real laugh.

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Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit27 read

“My favorite part was after Andrew Clark talks about how abusive his father treats him, everyone nervously looks at Bender like he's about to make an unsympathetic wisecrack. Bender instead makes a *sympathetic* wisecrack, "I think your old man and my old man should go bowling."”
Nobunga37▲ 161about 60–70% inread it ↗
“The scene where they get stoned is amazing”
▲ 19about 33–66% inread it ↗
“I crack up every time”
Mightymjolner33▲ 5about 0–100% inread it ↗
“One of the scenes I love the most is when the five of them have this heart to heart talk on the landing. They start to open up to each other and there's an emotional outpouring.”
lycando▲ 3about 33–66% inread it ↗

Metacritic29 read

“From the beginning to the epic ending, the entire story line has a smooth flow that tells the story of five different characters coming together.”
sarahmcsheehyabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“what I really liked about the film is one of the discussions they have at the end, where they discuss how their friendships will be once detention ends. This discussion really rings true as I think everybody knows that these kids will never see one another afterwards and, if they do, they may ignore them or mock them after seeing them because of high school social pressures.”
Spangleabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“i really got bored at some parts”
PfenderStrat621about 33–66% inread it ↗
“develops each of them over the hour and a half running time”
drlowdonabout 0–100% inread it ↗

TMDB4 read

“Bender" begins an hour and a half that allows each of them to expose”
CinemaSerfabout 0–75% inread it ↗
“the scene toward the end where they are all explaining what they did to get the detention”
SierraKiloBravoabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“_**Forced, artificial dialogs with eye-rolling character arcs**_ Released in 1985 and written & directed by John Hughes, "The Breakfast Club" is a teen dramedy about five high school students from five different sub-cultures during an all-day detention over the weekend at their suburban Chicago school. Molly Ringwald plays the popular girl, Emilio Estevez the jock, Anthony Michael Hall the Brainiac nerd, Judd Nelson the dope-smoking rebel and Ally Sheedy the neurotic misfit. Paul Gleason and ”
Wuchakread it ↗
“I absolutely love this film. When I saw that Ster-Kinekor was having a throwback screening, I immediately went to book my tickets to see it on the big screen. I still think The Breakfast Club is an incredible film, and the core message it presents remains deeply important and relevant even today. I love the premise: a group of seemingly random students in detention: the jock, the emo kid, the popular girl, the nerd, the rule-breaker, all thrown together. As the day unfolds, the labels fall”

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