The Breakfast Club (1984)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:38
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: The Breakfast Club is a warm, insightful, and very funny look into the inner lives of teenagers.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: When five high school students from different social groups are forced to spend a Saturday together in detention, they find themselves interacting with and understanding each other for the first... [More]
Starring: Paul Gleason, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall
Director: John Hughes
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Reviews for The Breakfast Club
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There's not a single false beat to be found, concluding Breakfast with a singular display of emotional discharge unheard of in its genre. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Time capsule.
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In nine hours of threatening, bickering and, eventually, poignant (but never maudlin) self-revelation, the stereotypes dissolve and re-form. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Good and bad, it’s still the definitive ’80s teen movie. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
One of the few teen-oriented films that truly addresses the troubles of its characters, yet it falters in dealing with the issues raised. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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1/5 |
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An iconic movie of the '80s, with all the unappealing baggage that suggests. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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." Full Review |
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3/5 |
Teen comedy-drama, over easy.
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4/5 |
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4/5 |
Anyone who has ever been to high school can relate to at least one of these kids.
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...Hughes may have been the first filmmaker to attempt to put plausible teenagers on screen Full Review |
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4/5 |
One of the best films ever made...I mean it!
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3/5 |
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3/5 |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Offers a breakthrough portrait of the pain and miunderstanding which result from demeaning social hierarchies set up by teenagers. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for The Breakfast Club
August 12, 2009:
Molly Ringwald Pays Tribute to John Hughes 
Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink star on the director's "neverland". More...
August 06, 2009:
John Hughes: 1950-2009
John Hughes, the director, producer, and writer whose insightful and heartfelt teen comedies defined an era, died Thursday of cardiac arrest. He was 59 years old. Hughes became... More...
March 03, 2008:
Who's Ready for a "Modern-Day Breakfast Club"?
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Five people, each from different walks of life, are forced into close quarters...and they walk away friends. More...
May 30, 2006:
TV Staple Paul Gleason Succumbs to Lung Cancer
Paul Gleason, who frequently played figures of authority in his four decades-long television and film career, died Saturday from a form of lung cancer linked to asbestos... More...
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