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The Breakfast Club was an interesting film. I was watching some documentary which referenced this film so I gave it a watch. The Breakfast Club released back in 1985 and is written and directed by John Hughes (Also of Home Alone and Ferris Bueller's Day Off fame). The movie stars Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy.

I found the Breakfast Club to be a little slow in the beginning, but I guess that was needed since it sets the scene and builds the foundation for the action to occur towards the end of the film. Everyone knew someone like or can empathise with one of the stereotypical characters: the jock, the criminal, the princess and the psycho. It's important to remember back to one's high school experience to really understand the film. Everyone has a viewpoint, a different perspective. Everyone is crazy in their own way (As Andrew, played by Estevez says: "We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all."). No one can really know what goes on behind closed doors; although with a little thought, people's backgrounds are predictable: the geek would most likely have a family pressuring them for success and the criminal is most likely to come from an abusive background. I wonder what they did the next day... stay friends or go back to their old ways?

Where does the Breakfast Club title come from? The nickname invented by students and staff for detention at New Trier High School, the school attended by the son of one of John Hughes' friends. Thus, those who were sent to detention were designated members of "The Breakfast Club". "The Breakfast Club" at that school probably took its name in turn from the title of American radio's longest running network entertainment show, broadcast from Chicago, 1933 to 1968.

When five students are thrown together by Saturday morning detention, each begins to see the others apart from their stereotypes. Andrew, the jock; Brian, the geek; John, the wastoid (criminal); Claire, the popular Prom Queen; and Allison, the psycho girl; each finds qualities about the others that make the Saturday morning change their lives. The principal wants them to write an essay, and they think they are in for a boring 8 hours of doing nothing. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems.

IMDB has a rating of 7.8 for this movie. The plot of The Breakfast Club: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

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