The Breakfast Club (The Film) 101

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Well, most of us are trapped in our homes right now, so say we take a look at a film where five high school students are trapped at school on a Saturday. Here is everything you need to know about The Breakfast Club, which came out, believe it or not, 35 years ago.

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Sources/further reading:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakfast_Club
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-breakfast-club-movie/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_film
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breakfast_club
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NFDEIYOmJvAJ:https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-emotional-legacy-of-the-breakfast-club/550460/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Few films before The Breakfast Club so earnestly showed what it truly meant to feel the angst of a teenager. First of all, the acting was quite good, despite some cheesy moments that show up from time to time. Previous teen films often felt more like 40-year olds writing about the teenage perspective, but this film felt like actual teenagers wrote it. It probably helped that both Ringwald and Hall were 16-year olds themselves. The other three were actually in their early twenties.

Still, just like he did with his film Sixteen Candles, it’s like Hughes opened up a window to a whole new world viewers didn’t know about. Teenagers were finally being heard. It was raw. It was relatable. And sure, it seems cliche today, but people forget it was the FIRST to do all this.

The Breakfast Club is mostly about the struggle of the suburban American teenager to truly be understood, both by adults (clip turned on me) and also by themselves (another clip). Boundaries are broken. These five students are forced to break out of their normal environments, and in the process learn quite a bit about themselves. This, during a time in their lives where they actually don’t know nearly enough about themselves.

The film is also about status...about how all of us, not just suburban American teenagers, often form hierarchies and then proceed to pretend that these hierarchies don’t exist. And finally, The Breakfast Club brilliantly shows us what can happen when we are forced to hit the pause button in our life or when we are forced to go into quarantine with people we barely know, even though I think we thought we knew those people.

The Breakfast Club basically was the quintessential coming of age film for Generation Xers everywhere. It’s consistently ranked as one of the best teen films of all time, and the best movie ever made by John Hughes. Teen films? Heck, John Hughes practically invented the modern definition of “teen film” with The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and these other films.

Its soundtrack even became iconic, representing being a teen in the 1980s. In 2005, on the 20th anniversary of its release, the film received the Silver Bucket of Excellence Award at the MTV Movie Awards, and most of the cast was even there to reunite for it. In 2015, on the 30th anniversary of its release, Universal digitally remastered it and re-screened it across the country. The next year, the Library of Congress selected to preserve it in the National Film Registry due to it being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Today, The Breakfast Club is practically synonymous with all of the 1980s. Virtually all teen movies afterward can credit The Breakfast Club as at least a partial influence.

It is currently certified 89% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and what’s remarkable is that it continues to resonate more with teenagers of today, 35 years after things that used to be in style clearly went out of style. In other words, The Breakfast Club is timeless. We are nostalgic for it, but we are also amazed at how, despite the technology dramatically changing, the teenagers themselves haven’t changed much over the years. They still feel like freaks. They still want to rebel. They still want to fight. They still want to be respected. They still want to be understood.

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