This film is a classic in every sense of the word. It's theme of cliques in high schools (oh yeah by the way people, if anything caused Columbine, it was THAT, not Marilyn Manson or any other music) and how they hurt people with the stereotypes is timeless that continues to live on today, which is why generation after generation loves this movie.
There's the "criminal" (although in reality he fits the "drug user" more today), the "goody two shoes prep", the "nerd", the "jock" and the "social outcast."
They are all to spend 8 hours in detention on a Saturday. Tensions run high as it's obvious none of them are interested in talking to each other, with the exception of the jock and the prep, who are friendly.
Tensions run high between the criminal and the jock, due to his harassment of the prep. However, after a while, things calm down and people begin talking. Walls are broken down, and they all begin to get along. The best moment of the movie is when the criminal tells it like it is. That even though they were friends on Saturday, come Monday morning the prep wouldn't give the nerd the time of day in front of her friends.
Never before has a depiction of high school been so accurate. They have every clique down to a tee. American Pie had it's moments, Fast Times is a classic for a different reason, Dazed and Confused was funny but dated.
The Breakfast Club will continue to be an American classic. It quite frankly should be shown in every high school as a message to the students. No one is above anyone else. I know who I am. Do you?
Some people may wonder about the 5 star rating, after my little spiel in my Shawshank Redemption review. Put it this way:This movie has the same timeless quality, and is the best depiction of high school life that has ever been made, and there have been plenty that have tried, but just weren't as good.
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