The Breakfast Club (1984)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 41 Fresh: 37 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus:
The Breakfast Club is a warm, insightful, and very funny look into the inner lives of teenagers.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
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 time. A jock (Emilio Estevez), a criminal (Judd Nelson), a princess (Molly Ringwald), a basket... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Paul Gleason, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos
Director: John Hughes
Producer: John Hughes, Ned Tanen
Screenwriter: John Hughes
Composer: Gary Chang, Keith Forsey
Producer: John Hughes, Ned Tanen
Screenwriter: John Hughes
Composer: Gary Chang, Keith Forsey
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In nine hours of threatening, bickering and, eventually, poignant (but never maudlin) self-revelation, the stereotypes dissolve and re-form.
07/27/07
Top Critic
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.
07/18/07
Top Critic
One of the few teen-oriented films that truly addresses the troubles of its characters, yet it falters in dealing with the issues raised.
07/18/07
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.
07/18/07
Top Critic
An iconic movie of the '80s, with all the unappealing baggage that suggests.
06/24/06
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.
12/06/05
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."
11/11/05
...Hughes may have been the first filmmaker to attempt to put plausible teenagers on screen
04/17/05
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.
10/23/04
Top Critic
Offers a breakthrough portrait of the pain and miunderstanding which result from demeaning social hierarchies set up by teenagers.
08/22/04
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