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The Breakfast Club

August 23rd 2007 00:46
The Breakfast Club, is a movie well renowned for it's cultural differences, the making of an uncanny groups, including someone from each a typical cliche and it's vast visual description of a stereotypical perspective of a 1980's American High School.
It includes a group of all entirely different high school students, all from different 'clicks' that somehow get into some trouble together, that end up giving them all a Saturday detention.

The characters include:
Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald) whom is considered the rich, upper class, snobby princess.

Andrew Clarke (emilio Estevez) the high school wrestling 'Jock'.
Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall) the class nerd whom is extremely perverted.
John Bender (Judd Nelson) the high school delinquent the typical 'badass'.
Alison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy) the compulsive liar whom is always in her own world of a mental psych episode.

Five completely different students and one mean old fashioned principal, Mr Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) in one high school library for a full day of time spent together. Although only occasionally is the principal there to supervise, as he's given each and every student in detention a 1,000 word essay. As Principal Vernon only comes in every now and again, This gives the students enough time to cause some kind of chaos after all making a truce with one another.
Brian and Andy playfully sexually harass Claire while Ally comes out with random outburts throughout the entire movie, showing how they characters and what characters they are supposed to be.
Before the truce comes along the characters are extremely hostile to one another, although in order to pass the time the share a marijuana 'joint' to one another leading the characters to calm down a bit, loosening them up in ordering for them to open up to one another. Through their eight lengthening hours they seem to find that they have more in common than they planned on. All characters seem to be going through their typical adolescent times in a similar situation. All seem to be fighting and managing their parents standards while at the same time trying to stay and be as themselves. Couples arrive throughout detention, leading the 'classmates' to fall for each other. Alison and Andy seem to find each other while Claire and Bender show each other their affection with seems to be a steamy kiss! Brien ends up righting the essay for Mr Vernon and includes all students in the detention telling him exactly what he thinks. He signs the essay "The Breakfast Club" as they students leave they know that when they get back to school on the Monday all school life will go back to the norm.



Directed by:
John Hughes
Produced by: John Hughes
Ned Tanen
Written by: John Hughes
Starring:
Emilio Estevez
Paul Gleason
Anthony Michael Hall
Judd Nelson
Molly Ringwald
Ally Sheedy
Music by:Keith Forsey
Cinematography:
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Thomas Del Ruth
Editing by: Dede Allen
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release date(s): February 15, 1985
Running time: 97 min
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Comment by James Rickard

August 23rd 2007 01:46
Hard to believe it was 22 years ago! Ya know what's bad about that movie??? When it's on, you say, "I'll just watch a few minutes." And, they next thing you know, you've been sucked into the whole thing!!!!!!!

Comment by Anonymous

August 23rd 2007 02:42
awesome awesome awesome movie!!!
has not been too long!
could watch it over and over again

Comment by Le Petite Cochon

September 28th 2010 01:01
you all smell

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