The Breakfast Club Reconvening at Cinemas
Universal Pictures’ 1985 hit, The Breakfast Club, is coming back to movie theaters after 40 years for a modern-day audience to discover.
Mark your calendars. September 7th and September 10th will be the two days you’ll be able to catch the John Hughes classic, The Breakfast Club, back on the big screen. A criminal, an athlete, a princess, a brain and a basket case…you know the drill. These characters come together for Saturday detention and formed the basis of the film which changed the way teenagers of the 1980’s were perceived by their older counterparts forever.
Hughes’ masterfully written teen dramedy is well-known for its great scenes. One of them has the whole crew dancing at one point and moving and grooving in the library while another has the criminal (Judd Nelson) emulating yelling back at his family in front of his new friends for the day. How could anybody forget the song, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds which was paid homage to at the end of the Emma Stone comedy, Easy A, from 2010? At the end of The Breakfast Club, Judd Nelson’s character is seen walking on a high school football field and makes a fist as he pushes his arm up in the air. It’s the defining moment of teen cinema from the 1980’s and the movie must be seen if you have not yet seen it.
Molly Ringwald who played the “princess” and Nelson’s love interest in the 1985 film has since expressed concern that the Hughes movie was something closer to a bunch of privileged students’ set of personal problems, but she may be in the minority as I’ve seen the film recently myself and still think it makes very valid points about growing up as a teenager in the 80’s whether the kids portrayed were indeed privileged or not.
Emilio Estevez plays the athlete who is under fierce watch by his dad to succeed and his character falls in love with the Ally Sheedy quiet basket case character by the time the film ends. Anthony Michael Hall, who recently appeared in a Halloween film opposite Jamie Lee Curtis, played the “brain” in Hughes’ masterwork who doesn’t get a love interest, but this character makes some valid points about what it’s like to be the smartest one in a group of every day students.
Let’s not mention the great Paul Gleason (who died in 2006) as the one authoritative person at the high school who was in charge for the day. Gleason rocked this role and held his own with one of the most definitive roles of his career. As the janitor, John Kapelos, also had appeal within the picture as well.
The Breakfast Club is much different than any type of movie that would be made about today’s teenagers. These kids would have been on their cell phones if the movie’s story was told in modern times. It’s essentially a tale of teen turmoil of the 1980’s as presented by Hughes and it’s as relevant now as it was then even if the kids would have texted their thoughts to each other instead of speaking them in a movie made in 2025.
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