The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club

(348 customer reviews)

The Breakfast Club, an iconic portrait of 1980s American high school life, is now available in an all-new digitally remastered Flashback Edition with never-before-seen bonus features! When Saturday detention started, they were simply the Jock, the Princess, the Brain, the Criminal and the Basket Case, but by that afternoon they had become closer than any of them could have imagined. Featuring an all-star ’80s cast including Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, this warm-hearted coming-of-age comedy from writer/director John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, Weird Science) helped define an entire generation!

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Actors:	Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson
Director:	John Hughes
Format:	Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:	English
Subtitle:	English, French, Spanish
Number of Discs:	1
Studio:	Universal Studios
Run Time:	97 minutes
DVD Release Date:	September 16, 2008
Average Customer Rating:	based on 348 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 4.5

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Teen Angst Masterpiece! Jun 29, 2010
This is such a great movie! It went into the lives of five different teenagers and had great character development. Great acting! Great quotable lines! This is one of my favorite movies!

Must See Movie Jun 18, 2010
If you are ur daddy's boy, this movie is not for you. But if you have your parents who hate your gut and you are not good enough for them no matter what you do, this is the movie for you. This is not an action flick. This is a talkie movie. So, if u r one of us, you know exactly what this movie is talking about. Otherwise, nothing will make sense.

Picture and sound quality is very good for this old flick.
Love this movie. 5 stars!

The Breakfast Club. May 22, 2010
Saw it on Netflix,although a bit long and overdramatic at times, it is the quintessential 80's movie and a must see. It still relates to High School and modern school cliques and how everyone goes with their own whether it be class,color or social.Just to see Molly she is beautiful, I love redheads,But I am A bigger Fan of Brunettes and found the quiet girl turned beautiful cliche even better than molly. Yes the movie is long,the dance sequence is looked aside by me but it's a good movie.

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Why is this movie so popular? Mar 09, 2010
I had to watch this movie in Psych class last semester. The entire time all I wanted to do was punch each of the kids in the face and tell them to stop acting like such whiny little brats. Bender, the "outcast-druggie" stereotype was possibly the most obnoxious character I've ever seen in a movie. He basically spent the entire time aggravating the other characters (and me at the same time) who were equally annoying in their reactions to him (they ALWAYS took the bait, ALWAYS responded like he wanted them to. Seriously, don't you learn in preschool to plug your ears and say "I'm not listening, I'm not listening"?).

Then at the end they magically become friends, and 2 pairs of them start dating, which also got on my nerves, because it was SO unrealistic.

A Little Cheesy, But Gets You Thinking Mar 06, 2010
To be completely honest, I usually hate movies like this. It's like Don McLean's song "American Pie", where basically he just mashes up a whole bunch of different themes and lets people interpret them to death. It kind of takes the fun out of the experience. Fortunately, director John Hughes (Mr. 80s himself!) doesn't allow his weighty material to get in the way of the film's true message.

Basically, the plot of this film centers on a group of five high-schoolers dragging into the school on a Saturday to serve their detention "sentence". They come from all walks of life: The Rebel (Judd Nelson), The Jock (Emilio Estevez), The Princess (Molly Ringwald), The Troubled (Ally Sheedy) and The Nerd (Anthony Michael Hall). While being lorded over by Principal Richard Vernon (played brilliantly by Paul Gleason; he almost steals the show!), the self-dubbed "Breakfast Club" start to get to know each other a little bit.

From there, the rest of the film is essentially two things: a series of hilarious sight/action gags to foil Mr. Vernon, and (more importantly) a treatise on the cliquish life of high school students. Led by the colorful commentary of Nelson's hard-edged character, each stereotype is carefully picked apart and laid bare for the world to see. Is "Ringwald" truly a good girl, or just fooling herself? Is "Hall" a dedicated student, or just playing the role to keep the few friendships he has? Plus, the instigator ("Nelson") turns out to be perhaps the most interesting character-study of them all!

What keeps the movie from seeming too high-handy and sappy, though, is the wonderful directing of Hughes. Unlike, say, James Cameron's "Avatar", where the issues are preached to you in black-and-white terms with no room for disagreement, Hughes leaves it up to the viewer to decide who "The Breakfast Club" members really are. You can view them as Mr. Vernon does, or have the opportunity to delve in deeper if you so choose.

Thus, I have no problems recommending this film to any and all fans of movies that will really make you think. The ending may be too cheesy (but probably needed to satisfy the teen audience), but along the way it packs quite an intellectual and emotional punch, with a hefty dose of comedy thrown in as well.

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