“They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.”
The Breakfast Club is a film written, produced and directed by John Hughes that was released in 1985 about High School stereotyping and Self Discovery in which a handful of common stereotypical unhappy high school students that are given an in school suspension at their local school “Sherman High” (Which is based in Chicago) from 8am in the morning until 4pm in the afternoon on a Saturday for them all individually breaking various school rules. (For Example… fire alarms being pulled when there was no fire and skipping school to go shopping.) This classic filmed has been intended to interest its teenage viewers but after time “The Breakfast Club” has shown to be very entertaining for adult audience.
The cast and characters of “The Breakfast Club” (In no particular order) include John Bender “The Criminal” (Played by Judd Nelson), Claire Standish “The Princess” (Played by Molly Ringwald), Andrew Clark “The Athlete” (Played by Emilio Estevez), Brian Johnson “The Brain” (Played by Anthony Michael Hall), Allison Reynolds “The Basket Case” (Played by Ally Sheedy), Principal Richard "Dick" Vernon (Played by Paul Gleason), and the School Janitor, Carl Reed (Played by John Kapelos).
It is quite difficult to summarize all of the positive things that this film delivers to the watching audience as it is all directed and acted out very nicely but I would have so say that the main positive thing about the film is that what it does and what it represents about these teenagers and about their school, it does so in a way that is not so realistic but entertaining in which makes the movie and story appear to be believable as if could actually happen with all the extra back story that the movie gives these characters as we learn about their own individuals personalities and preferences. Besides my main reason I’d just like to point out that in the 80’s you really couldn’t get a