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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Universal Pictures
Salesrank: 15434
Released: April 29, 1998 |
| Our Price: $40.00 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
PREVIEWED MOVIE The Breakfast Club
Description of The Breakfast Club:
John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes (Sixteen Candles), who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. --Tom Keogh
The Breakfast Club Reviews:
As good as I'd remembered it! 
2009-12-31 - I don't think I'd seen this film since around the time it was released about 25 years ago, first @ the theater, & then once more on VHS. I remembered it being a good film, but I'd forgotten just how good, & very powerfully emotional. I was prompted to see it again after a recent retrospective on people we'd lost this year, including film director & writer John Hughes. I don't think I can remember anyone else who made films which spoke both to & about teenagers & young people this honestly & directly.
One of the greatest movies... 
2009-12-21 - ...not just of the 80's, but of... ever. For some this might be an exaggeration, but having seen many movies, I feel confident in my assessment. I never get tired of this movie, even having seen this several times already and buying my own copy. All of the actors are great, and for a movie that was fairly low-budget and quickly-produced (I hear it took less than two months start to finish), it's easily better than many movies with a huge budget and huger special effects. The actors did a great job of embracing their roles. It's just one of these movies that was made to last - now that's quality.
Thought is was great when I was 16, but now.... 
2009-12-05 - Watching it again recently for the first time in years and years, I realized that this film firmly belongs on the "Should Have Left a Good Memory Alone" list. I guess it helps if you are as full of teenage angst as everyone in this film is or if you still believe that everyone fits neatly into geek-jock-freak etc. categories. I'll take Ferris Bueller, Planes Trains & Automobiles or Sixteen candles anytime but The Breakfast Club just doesn't do it for me anymore.
A John Hughes Masterpiece...
2009-11-26 - On a Saturday morning somewhere in America, five high school students report for detention in a school library. The group includes a jock, a geek, a freak, a princess, and a metalhead loser, with seemingly nothing in common other than the opportunity to be bullied by a hard-nosed assistant principal.
In John Hughes' 1985 classic "The Breakfast Club", actors Emilio Estevez (the jock), Anthony Michael Hall (the geek), Ally Sheedy (the freak), Molly Ringwald (the princess), and Judd Nelson (the metalhead loser) will participate in an eight-hour ad hoc encounter session, discover a great deal about themselves and each other, and come out a little older and wiser. Although the way, the audience will be treated to some well-done moments of comedy, drama, and honest teenage angst.
Hughes keeps his young and talented cast busy and his dialogue real while respecting his on-screen characters. They may be stereotypes, but they tap a vein for practically anyone who endured high school in the late 20th century. The movie features an exceptional soundtrack. "The Breakfast Club" is very highly recommended to John Hughes fans of any age.
classic coming of age movie
2009-11-02 - classic coming of age movie from the 80s. bought for my 15 year old daughter. watched together and laughed. spurred good conversation and comparison of my teen years to hers.
