They are all from very different backgrounds (some challenging) but over the course of the day they find out what they’ve got in common (loathing of parents mostly, plus insecurities which mean that they act in ways they then feel ashamed of). They’ve all been sent there for 9 hours, to be watched over by deputy principal Dick Vernon, who expects them to write essays on who they think they are. So here goes: the princess, Claire (Molly Ringwald) who bunked off school to go shopping sportsman Andy (Emilio Estevez), who taped a pupil’s buttocks together in an attempt to mimic his father’s school exploits about which he hears so much misfit Allison (Ally Sheedy) who wasn’t actually sent to detention, she’s just turned up as otherwise her day would be empty nerdy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) who had a flare gun in his locker and bad boy delinquent John (Judd Nelson) who set off a fire alarm. And it’s still interesting, which isn’t a given.īreakfast Club is a classic but it’s also 30 years old and even if you remember its 1980s heyday, you may not remember all the characters or why they were in Saturday detention at their high school at 7am. It’s funny, and realistic, but quite unlike a teenage film from 2016. The rest is talking, talking, talking, in one location. Nothing much actually happens in the film in terms of action (they run down a few corridors and take a few minutes out to dance around the study hall). The Breakfast Club is a very wordy film, which shows how short our attention spans are nowadays.
Or DVD, Blu-Ray, & Amazon Video: The Breakfast Club – 30th Anniversary Edition Amazon UK: Amazon Video The Breakfast Club, or buy Breakfast Club – 30th Anniversary Edition. I like to think of Breakfast Club as happening a few hours before Fight Club, a place where everyone gets all the talking they can’t do about Fight Club out of their system, as all anyone seems to do on Breakfast Club – apart from a brief interlude dancing round the study hall to “We Are Not Alone” – is talk and talk and talk.īuy / rent The Breakfast Club.