The Breakfast Club

[1985, Movie]

The Breakfast Club: Review

Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald,

John Hughes's attempt to take a serious look at teenage angst circa 1985 raises more issues than it ultimately cares to deal with, but a great cast (including Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez, soon to be dubbed "The Rat Pack") makes it work. The film, about a "varied" group of Chicago high-school students forced to spend a Saturday afternoon together in detention, had a huge impact on a generation of moviegoers. Who know who you are. Read the complete review for The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club: Cast & Details

Year: 1985
Rated R

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Cast
Emilio Estevez: Andrew Clark
Paul Gleason: Richard Vernon
Anthony Michael Hall: Brian Johnson
John Kapelos: Carl
Judd Nelson: John Bender
Molly Ringwald: Claire Standish

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Question: I just saw Rocky Balboa and liked it, but do you have any idea why Adrian was written out of the cast of characters? Did Talia Shire not want to do it? — DanielFlickChick: In interviews, Sylvester Stallone has said that in the first drafts of the Rocky Balboa screenplay, Adrian was still alive but died later in the story. But at some point he decided that it was more dramatic to start out with Rocky sleepwalking through life because he's so devastated by having lost the love of his life. The only quote attributed to Talia Shire I've run across has a rather evasive ring to it; she never addresses whether or not anyone ever spoke to her about the possibility of being in the film, and she certainly doesn't say she turned the part down. But there are pictures online of Shire attending the Los Angeles premiere, which suggests to me that if she had been angry or disappointed, she's over it now. Question: About two years ago, I read on TVGuide.com that Ellen DeGeneres... read more
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FlickChick | 3/23/2006
I was watching The Breakfast Club on AMC and noticed scenes that aren't on my commercial tape of the movie. Wer read more
The Watercooler | 9/9/2005
Halfway through 1986, the show hooked me in that campy guilty pleasure kind of way. And that's despite being hit re read more