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The Breakfast Club (1985)

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91

Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 4

The Breakfast Club is a warm, insightful, and very funny look into the inner lives of teenagers.

57

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3

The Breakfast Club is a warm, insightful, and very funny look into the inner lives of teenagers.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
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John Hughes wrote and directed this quintessential 1980s high school drama featuring the hottest young stars of the decade. Trapped in a day-long Saturday detention in a prison-like school library are Claire, the princess (Molly Ringwald); Andrew, the jock (Emilio Estevez); John, the criminal (Judd Nelson); Brian, the brain (Anthony Michael Hall); and Allison, the basket case (Ally Sheedy). These five strangers begin the day with nothing in common, each bound to his/her place in the high school

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Drama, Comedy

John Hughes

Sep 2, 2003

Universal Pictures

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All Critics (44) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (4) | DVD (22)

In nine hours of threatening, bickering and, eventually, poignant (but never maudlin) self-revelation, the stereotypes dissolve and re-form.

July 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Denver Post
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John Hughes's 1985 film seems meant to explain 80s youngsters to yesterday's youth, and comes to the comforting conclusion that they're just as alienated, idealistic, and vulnerable as the baby boomers of the 1960s.

July 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Does director John Hughes really believe, as he writes here, that 'when you grow up, your heart dies.' It may. But not unless the brain has already started to rot with films like this.

July 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comments (20)
Variety
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An iconic movie of the '80s, with all the unappealing baggage that suggests.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comments (5)
Time Out
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The Breakfast Club doesn't need earthshaking revelations; it's about kids who grow willing to talk to one another, and it has a surprisingly good ear for the way they speak.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Mr. Hughes, having thought up the characters and simply flung them together, should have left well enough alone.

May 20, 2003 | Comments (8)
New York Times
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A movie that has far more problems than its reputation would suggest, the kind of flaws that can be very readily glossed over in a fit of fond remembrance.

September 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

It's a movie for anyone who's ever had zits.

February 3, 2011 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

There's not a single false beat to be found, concluding Breakfast with a singular display of emotional discharge unheard of in its genre.

September 8, 2008 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com
DVDTalk.com

Time capsule.

February 16, 2008
ColeSmithey.com

Good and bad, it's still the definitive '80s teen movie.

July 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

One of the few teen-oriented films that truly addresses the troubles of its characters, yet it falters in dealing with the issues raised.

July 18, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The Breakfast Club was teen-auteur John Hughes' attempt to take a step back and evaluate the large horde of teens our schools turn out and how they desperately search for identity.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

Equal parts funny, smart and sincere, it's a movie that delved a little deeper into the teenage psyche and came back with something more challenging than "nerds want sex."

November 11, 2005 Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | Comment (1)
DVD Clinic

Teen comedy-drama, over easy.

July 6, 2005
Movie Metropolis

Anyone who has ever been to high school can relate to at least one of these kids.

April 22, 2005

...Hughes may have been the first filmmaker to attempt to put plausible teenagers on screen

April 17, 2005 Full Review
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

One of the best films ever made...I mean it!

March 11, 2005 | Comments (2)
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Audience Reviews for The Breakfast Club

Quintessential John Hughes and a classic of the 1980's. Very iconic and memorable. Required viewing. PERIOD. The set up is simple: five teens from different social cliques and backgrounds spend a Saturday in detention together and begin to see that they have more in common than they initially realized.

Seeing as how I was only born a year after this movie came out, I don't have the nostalgia for it that many do. I did however, first discover it at a young and impressionable age, so, even though it doesn't resonate with me on a level like something from my own generation, it still hits big emotionally and with experiences and relatability.

In a way, this movie isn't really dated becasue of that, and the message in general. It may be set in the 80s, and deal with instances and situations anchored in that time, but the overall impact and point is timeless, and I'd like to think that that was the whole point all along.
June 9, 2006
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June 12, 2006
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    1. Andrew Clark: That's really intelligent.
    2. John Bender: You're right. It's wrong to literature. It's such fun to read. And Moe-Lay really pumps my nads.
    3. Claire Standish: Moliere.
    – Submitted by Ah-lick L (38 days ago)
    1. John Bender: What's that?
    2. Claire Standish: Sushi.
    3. John Bender: Sushi?
    4. Claire Standish: Rice, raw fish and seaweed.
    5. John Bender: You won't accept a guy's tongue in your mouth, and you're going to eat that?
    6. Claire Standish: Can i eat?
    7. John Bender: I don't know. Give it a try.
    – Submitted by Ah-lick L (38 days ago)
    1. John Bender: It was an accident.
    2. Claire Standish: You're an asshole.
    3. John Bender: Sue me.
    – Submitted by Ah-lick L (38 days ago)
    1. John Bender: Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
    – Submitted by Ah-lick L (38 days ago)
    1. John Bender: You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a banner fuckin' year at the old Bender family. I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said "Hey. Smoke up Johnny."
    – Submitted by Adam O (47 days ago)
    1. Allison Reynolds: I'd do that. I'll do anything sexual, and I don't need a million dollars to do it either. I'm a nymphomaniac
    – Submitted by Adam O (47 days ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Breakfast Club - Der Frühstücksclub (DE)
  • El club de los cinco (ES)
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