The Breakfast Club (1985) movie poster

The Breakfast Club (1985)

"They only met once, but it changed their lives forever."
ThumbScore
👍 90%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 76%
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Director
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.7/10 (8,439 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
87%
Metacritic
66

Cast

Emilio Estevez as Andrew Clark · 78% avg
Judd Nelson as John Bender · 69% avg
Molly Ringwald as Claire Standish · 73% avg
Anthony Michael Hall as Brian Johnson · 70% avg
Ally Sheedy as Allison Reynolds · 76% avg
Paul Gleason as Richard Vernon · 72% avg
John Kapelos as Carl · 69% avg
Perry Crawford as Allison's Father

Is The Breakfast Club good?

Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 76%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#94 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#11 / 60 · 1985
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 7 · John Hughes

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American coming-of-age comedy-drama written and directed by John Hughes. Five high school students — the brain Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), the athlete Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the basket case Allison (Ally Sheedy), the princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), and the criminal Bender (Judd Nelson) — spend a Saturday in detention at their suburban Chicago school. As the hours pass and the authority of their pompous assistant principal (Paul Gleason) proves hollow, the five strangers gradually open up about their insecurities, family problems, and the social pressures that have defined them, discovering that their stereotyped identities are masks concealing common fears and desires.

The Breakfast Club was the definitive film of the John Hughes teen canon and one of the most influential films about adolescence ever made. Hughes treated his teenage characters with a seriousness and empathy that was virtually unprecedented in Hollywood — their problems were not trivialized or played for laughs but presented as genuinely important, and their emotions were given the same weight as adult drama. The film earned $51 million on a $1 million budget.

Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)," which plays over the final freeze-frame of Bender's fist-pump walking across the football field, became one of the most iconic ending shots and songs in cinema history.

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