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The Breakfast Club

1985

John Hughes

Emilio Estévez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall ...

6.8

24,789

Comedy It's the weekend, and five students have weekend detention. There's a jock, a princess, a misfit, a nerd, and a lout. Not much in common, except for having to give up their day, sit in the school library, and write an essay for the principal. Being from such widely different backgrounds and having such completely different personalities, it's inevitable that some frictions and shenanigans develop. Especially when the principal leaves the room... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The Breakfast Club doesn't need earthshaking revelations; it's about kids who grow willing to talk to one another, and it has a surprisingly good ear for the way they speak. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"'The Breakfast Club' deserves credit for venturing beyond the formulaic, timid patterns of most youth movies (...) However (...) the film they don't generate enough impact"	NEU
United States	Rafer Guzmán Newsday	"Rarely have on-screen teens felt this authentic."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	" it has a candor that is unexpected and refreshing in a sea of too-often generic teen-themed films. (...) Hughes has created a surprisingly enduring motion picture"	POS
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"'The Breakfast Club' becomes as static and uninvolving as most filmed plays "	NEG
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"John Hughes's 1985 film seems meant to explain 80s youngsters to yesterday's youth, and comes to the comforting conclusion that they're just as alienated, idealistic, and vulnerable as the baby boomers of the 1960s."	POS

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