Breakfast Club

Pros: great depiction of high-school cliques & personalities
Cons: somewhat cardboard characters

All right, which one did you think was you? Can you admit it? I don't think anyone who watched this movie - especially if you were a teen in the 80's - could come away from it without seeing a little bit of themselves in it. John Hughes has an ...

Pros: great cast, very "real" story, Hughes at his best, funny and exciting
Cons: none

Many say that Director John Hughes created the genre of film dealing with the angst that kids feel at school on a daily basis. Sure there will films like Rebel Without a Cause and American Graffiti before Hughes came along, but with his three films of ...

Pros: Mostly entertaining movie with good cast.
Cons: Some things not as believable.

John Hughes made a name for himself by making movies about teenagers that were hugely successful and entertaining. I have seen and enjoyed many of them over the years. I just watched The Breakfast Club< b>< i> again. Five different ...

Pros: Characters, Performances, Dialogue, Music
Cons: None

“...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They’re quite aware of what they’re going through...” (David Bowie)

So begins The Breakfast Club, one of the...

Pros: Story everyone can relate to, excellent character development, localized theme, great soundtrack
Cons: Cons? Where??

Pros: Wonderful actors. Great character development.
Cons: The ending.

What happens when people stop being polite and start being real? This is the opening line to MTV?s hit show The Real World. This colorful show has been a staple for MTV viewers since 1992. The show consists of seven strangers who are...

Pros: It's very well acted, one of the many perfect movies of any century.
Cons: If there is some, it's nothing major.

The Breakfast Club is one of the greatest movies ever to be made. Why? Because the movie is a pure definition of a "cult classic". The story isn't exactly "cult classic" material--uh wait, it is! 5 [complete strangers] students are sent to a ...

Pros: A Journey of Teens and their Self-discovery.
Cons: Weak final scenes tended to trivalize the important messages.

When I review a movie, I either really like it or I really don’t. That’s why I don’t review many movies. Most movies or videos that I view fall somewhere in between. So if they are only an “OK” movie, I can’t find the words to express it and I can’t...

Pros: well acted.
Cons: bad script. shallow and predictable.

The Breakfast Club was one of those movies that everyone else around me really enjoyed back when it came out and I, for whatever reason, watched it and thought "Am I missing something?" Years later, I still have friends who count this among their top ten...

Pros: great 'slice of life' comedy
Cons: a bit dated now.

Chicago Film WO: The Breakfast Club

It’s Saturday morning. It’s early, so early that the dew is still on the grass and the newspaper boys are out on their routes. The fog still hasn’t burnt off before another bright day. And 5...

Pros: Good dialog, great acting.
Cons: Sometimes a bit of lag between interesting scenese.

I am venturing into an area I normally try to stay out of: the review of a movie that already has a huge number of reviews to it.

Be that as it may, the Breakfast Club is a film that just warrants yet another reminder of its existence and...

Pros: nice performances by most of the "brat pack"
Cons: creaky premise; teacher is a one-dimensional boob; pat ending

Breakfast Club (1985) hasn't held up well over the years, despite the fact that many people still claim to love it. If you browse through the list of Epinions here, you'll find a lot of overly lavish praise and the average rating is a ...

Pros: Accurate depiction of high school society, great dialogue.
Cons: Some dated bits, a few over-the-top moments.

In looking over John Hughes resume as a writer-director, it's obvious why it's easy to forget that he was once one of the better writer-director's in Hollywood. For the past decade he has largely been coasting, giving us crap like Flubber, 101 Dalmatians...

Pros: Funny, insightful movie
Cons: We never get to hear the punchline to Bender's joke...

[Personal note: While talking recently with a friend, I caught myself dropping a line from "The Breakfast Club", (one of many memorable lines that have managed to stay in my head for the last 20 years). When she seemed to have missed the reference, I ...

Pros: The performances and monologues. Hell, it's pretty funny, too.
Cons: It's horribly cliche'd.

It's hard for incredibly happy/content people like myself to quite completely understand The Breakfast Club. Or maybe it's just hard for me; I don't know. Being the happiest person in the world (TM) isn't always easy, you know. But really, ...

Pros: A surprisingly brilliant depiction of the trappings of high school
Cons: None

I still remember the first time I saw it. I was in my pre-teens, and it seemed like everyone was talking about it. This cool, hip movie that seemed to capture the essence of high school. Though I wasn't yet in high school myself, and I saw the movie ...

Pros: Funny and well acted.
Cons:

John Hughes' slight propensity for telegraphed melodrama.

Written and Directed By John HughesEmilio Estevez (Andrew Clark)Anthony Michael Hall (Brian Johnson)Molly Ringwald (Claire Standish)Judd Nelson (John Bender)Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds)Paul Gleason ...

Pros: good cast, good characterization, entertaining
Cons: hard to believe, pot smoking, profanity

I decided to watch The Breakfast Club because the VHS tape was only 50 cents at a yard sale, and because Molly Ringwald is in it. Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson are also worth watching. In fact, the entire cast is very good. It was made in ...

Pros: An authentic exploration of teens' coming-of-age feelings.
Cons: Some typically teen language, sexual and chemical abuse references.

I think "The Breakfast Club" is probably one of the most important movies that high school, (and even junior high age) young people could see.

I used to work as a high school counselor, and as a family therapist with...

Pros: Directing, acting, screenplay.
Cons: Some of the dialogue is a bit dated.

The caste system is not unique to India. Caste systems, however subtle, exist in almost every culture and subculture in the world, and high school is no exception. Once everybody is appropriately labeled, this is high school according to John Hughes: ...

Pros: read the review
Cons: read the review

"The Breakfast Club" is a film that is obvious in its intention to make a statement about the caste system between teenagers, but it does so in a funny and enjoyable way. The film has a substantial amount of sympathy because the characters are realistic ...

Pros: Excellent characters and hopefilled ending
Cons: none

Of all of the films made by John Hughes starting some or all of the members of the "brat pack," this is my favorite. I was a pre-teen when I first saw this film on video at a slumber party. I didn't know about cliques and had little to no...

Pros: Good attempt at a somewhat original teen movie.
Cons: Very slow paced. Typical 1980s fashions and styles.

First a confession: I was never (and am still not) a fan of teen movies. While teenage years are technically supposed to be the most dramatic for many people, they just seem too personal for movies. Many teen movies, especially those produced before...

Pros: great acting, great story line, an understanding of why people are the way they are
Cons: Well if your under 25 you may find the dance moves a bit strange

This is one of my husbands favorite movies of all times. And although I think that we who were teen in the 80's can probably relate to the music and dancing styles than people who are younger than we are, I firmly believe that any one who is a teenager ...

Pros: Very enjoyable film!
Cons: Some high school hi-jinx scenes were unnecessary.

If you don't know where that line came from then you missed one of the best movies ever made. This is probably the first real teen 'angst' movie. This film proved that teens would watch movies without sex, violence, wild parties or dancing.

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Pros: real-life issues, great dialogue
Cons: pro-stratification

Just to reiterate, I will give away the ending, so please be warned.

This one was from the old days when John Hughes mattered. His peak period consisted of two movies: this one, plus "Sixteen Candles," in which the legendary Molly...

Pros: classic 80's
Cons: wish Genius had pair up with someone

I just happened to turn on the television today and the Breakfast Club was on. I would have to say that I have seen this movie atleast 15 times, and that is being conservative. I love this movie! I think this movie symbolizes the classic 80's and your...

Pros: Realistic, funny, and nostalgic
Cons: Too much blame placed on parents, lots of bad language, negative depiction of authority figures

"The Breakfast Club" is in many ways a typical John Hughes, teen-angst, Brat Pack film, yet it stands out from most of the others in terms of both depth and meaning. By the time Hughes made "Some Kind of Wonderful," he had done so...

Pros: great acting, theme is respectful of teenagers
Cons: too many new teen movies discredit their predecessors

The name John Hughes and Eighties movies are practically synonymous to me. The Breakfast Club is no exception to the rule. There isn't one main character who WASN'T part of the so-called Brat Pack, including Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson and...

Pros: simply awesome movie
Cons: geek doesn't get a girl :o(

OK confession time....I love this movie. I have seen this movie at least a hundred times and I never fail to watch it every time I see that it is coming on the tube. This movie portrays high school teens perfectly. There is the popular girl, the jock,...

Pros: Good lesson that high school kids of all groups could learn.
Cons: NONE AT ALL!!

I saw this movie for the first time in 1986. I didn't understand the problems really as a kid, but I understood the film better when I got to high school in 1993. This film is a must for a kid ready to head off to high school. Many classic examples to...

Pros: Great concept, acting, funny, sad, dramatic, good music
Cons: Somewhat stereotypical views of each character, some stupid dialog, not a movie you'll want to watch over and over again

Barely anyone likes detention. It's one of the most boring punishments schools have up their sleeves. Just imagine it on a Saturday though. Bad, huh? John Hughes' decided that it would be a nice concept for another film in his Shermer, Illinois series....

Pros: Great Feel-Good Movie
Cons: None

I agree with you so much! This is also one of my favorite movies! It is such a cute movie. It is one of those feel-good movies. It brings a person from each of the groups or cliques in high school together one day for the dreaded Saturday...

Pros: A great movie, full of great characters
Cons: none for me

I still remember the exact theatre I was in when I saw Breakfast Club for the first time. I was a college freshman and went with my dorm-mate Molly to see the film during it's first weekend at the box office. It's funny how you remember those things...

Pros: entertaining, well-acted
Cons: those 80's clothes!!

When this movie came out in 1985 I was only 8 years old so I didn't see it. But I have seen this movie many, many times. And I love it!

Who would have thought that a movie about 5 teenagers at detention would be good?? Many people surely...

Pros: great storyline and actors
Cons: language

This movie is one of my all time favorites. It really teaches great lessons that I feel everyone can benefit from.
This acting is great. Judd Nelson as the bad boy, Molly Ringwold as the rich girl, Emilo as the jock, Anthony Micheal Hall and the...

Pros: Great cast, script, directing
Cons: explicit drug use (marijuana)

This movie is a GREAT movie for teens today. I teach high school and I show this to all my classes every year and have them write a paragraph on who changes the most. I went to high school in the 70's and there were similar "groups." ...

Pros: Biting Humor, unique plot, most realistic John Hughes movie.
Cons: A little too mean, deep feelings that never come out in real High Schools.

I never got the title "The Breakfast Club"? In fact, when I was really little I couldn't STAND this movie. My older sister would sit in the playroom and watch it with her boyfriend and I would make gagging sounds outside the door.

Why? It...

Pros: Unforgettable, thoughtful
Cons: Could've been meatier

Oh, how I wish I could hate The Breakfast Club. Maybe it’s because I was a geeky high-school senior in 1985, when the film was released, and I defiantly loathed anything that smacked of cool. Perhaps it’s because writer/producer/director John Hughes has...

Pros: A great comic movie
Cons: none

I remember watching this movie a few years back. I fell in love with it.
It was a great movie with a comic line to it. I have since purchased a copy of my own. And I watch it all the time.

This movie has 5 teens that had to serve...

Pros: Music, Emilio, Judd, Humor, and Feeling
Cons: Makes me long for my teen years

I am not kidding. I have watched this movie so many times that I need a new copy of the tape. This movie is a "must see" for anyone who was a teen during the 80s. The music is great, the one-liners are "awesome" and well, it has...

Pros: Great script, great humor, great music, great acting, very realistic
Cons: Did we really dance that way?

Ah, the teen years. Proms, football games, yearbooks, pep rallies, over-filled lockers, gym class. And Saturday detention. I remember those days. I also remember growing up with the adults telling me things like "Do unto others as you would have...

Pros: Great characters
Cons: Not exactly an ethnically diverse cast

As a general rule I usually found "High School genre" films--even AS a teenager--pretty cliché and silly. Unfortunately, some big wigs in Hollywood probably decided a long time ago (perhaps in the early 80's!) that teen audiences were not very...

Pros: leads to great conversations
Cons: none

Five teenagers, one vice-principal, one janitor, and one empty high school combine for one outrageous film that's a must-see for every teenager in America. The clothes and the music may not be relevant anymore, but the stereotypes and the problems that...

Pros: The Brat Pack
Cons: none

If you haven't seen this movie about five High Schoolers, Put on Saturday School (detention), you have no idea what you are missing. I first saw this movie when it first came out back in 1985, since then I've probably seen it a hundred plus times. It...

Pros: great movie
Cons: no sequal to show Monday at school

I have always liked this movie. I was the same age as the characters when the movie when it came out. I guess the reason I like the movie so much is because it related with me at the time. The movie is really close to life at that point it shows how...

Pros: Acting, script, close to the truth
Cons: Teachers don't leave kids unattended like this

I'm glad I saw this movie for the umpteenth time this Saturday. In a room full of friends and friend's siblings, all of us from ages 12 to 19, they kept asking me questions about it until I told them to shut up and watch themselves. From the few who...

Pros: cast, humor, classic eighties
Cons: a few glitches

The Breakfast Club is the prime example of an 80's film. However, it deals with problems that haunt teens even to this day. Director John Hughes was able to identify and portray effectively the troubles so many people face during their adolescent...

Pros: Great unknown actors(at the time), great storyline
Cons: NONE

The 80's spurned some pretty major events. Events that Gen. Xer's will fondly remember and never, ever forget. Reaganomics, the Iran Contra Affair, Inflation, the Big Hair Mega Band movement, spandex clad Material Girl-ism and of course equal rights...

Pros: Strong teen perfromances. Unequivocally the best teen movie ever.
Cons: Limited cast.

John Hughes' "The Breakfast Club" is unequivocally my favorite teen film of all time. Even when looked at today, over fifteen years later, the film still holds its impact.

How ingenious. A film with a very small ensemble cast,...

Pros: Hilarious, great actors and actresses
Cons: none

I first saw this movie on tv a few months ago and I LOVED it. I can relate a lot to it. I'm mostly like the basket case; no friends, stash a lot of stuff laying around into a bag or my locker, dress in dark clothing, and do weird stuff (i.e. wrap strands...

Pros: Deals with real life issues
Cons: None

This is one of the best teen movies ever.
This movie deals with everything that teens are going through today and yesterday.
It puts teens from several different back grounds together in the same room for a day.
The smart kids,The bad kids...

Pros: Interesting to see what kids learn from watching it.
Cons: Not shown often enough

The Breakfast Club is a movie that has been out since the 80's but each and every time that I see that it's going to be on, I tune in to watch it once again.

The Breakfast Club stars:

Emilio Estevez as Andrew Clark,...

Pros: good actors
Cons: use of drugs.

I have been wanting to write an opinion about the Breakfast Club. Here it is. This movie is my all time favorite. My children, husband and I watch it every time it is on t.v.

I will start by saying that it was directed by John Hughes.
...

Pros: Great cast, very real. Funny.
Cons: Bit slow at times but other than that brilliant.

The title of my review being one of my favourite quotes ever, brilliantly delivered by a 26 year old (I had no idea) Judd Nelson. I watched this movie for the first time at about half 1 in the morning. I am yet to figure out why they would put it on ...

Pros: Great cast, plot, script, characters.....
Cons: nothing at all!!!

I have watched and re-watched The Breakfast Club enough times that I could probably quote half of the movie to you without flaw. As a matter of fact, I wrote a paper about it a year ago for a college class I was taking. Now, even after I have seen...

Pros: The cast, the times, the soundtrack...
Cons: nothing

Five high school students from extremely different backgrounds and "social acceptedness" are put together in a room, trusted to be silent and still, for an entire Saturday. You have the jock (Emilio Estevez), the prom queen(Molly Ringwald), the...

Pros: funny , sweet , vintage 80's
Cons: language , drug use

In my personal opinion this is the quintessential Brat Pack Classic . You just can never see this movie too often , and for everyone's constant enjoyment it is televised on TV almost every week .

From the very beginning of the movie you will...

Pros: real-life situations, different cliches
Cons: none

Although the character names slip my mind at the moment, I do remember all of the movie otherwise.

Emilio Estevez is a jock. Molly Ringwald is a "prom queen" per Judd Nelson's character. Judd is a rebel. Anthony Michael Hall is...

Pros: good example of life in high school
Cons: none

The Breakfast Club was one of the best movies made in the 80's. This movie was so funny and it was really interesting to see kids with totally different lifestyles together in one room for 8 hours. Not only is this movie funny, but it is about...

Pros: Interesting 80's aspects
Cons: Poor plot

"The Breakfast Club" wraps up the 80's teens in one movie. The music, the clothes, the dancing...all typical of the 80's. From that aspect, I enjoyed the movie, but it lacked a lot. I barely know what the movie is about because I could not...

Pros: Wonderful display of acting and deals with real problems
Cons: none

I have seen The Breakfast Club too many times to even begin to conjur up a number. This movie is one of those timeless classics that one can watch 300 times and never get sick of it. I respect this movie on so many different levels. It is a...

Pros: great for anyone who is or ever has been a teenager
Cons: ----

I love this movie. It very much captures the difficulty of adolescence and high school. It's also the only movie I've seen that honestly addresses the importance of popularity during those years, and the cruelty that that can lead to.

Everyone...

Pros: superb dialogue, entertaining characters
Cons: the beauty makeover at the end is slightly patronizing

Possibly the greatest teen line ever: "So Ahab, cay bo mon doobage?"

That line alone pretty much insures three stars even fifteen years on. I think I saw the movie 12 times in regular theater and beyond -- far more than any of the...

Pros: everything
Cons: We never hear the end of the topless blonde and dog joke

The Breakfast Club, although almost 15 years old, will still remain as the King of all movies. It's a movie using fewer than 15 actors and actresses.

And the story couldn't be better... Five high school students, each from different circles...

Pros: Excellent performances and a funny, tender and real script
Cons: Don't think so.

What makes John Hughes' Breakfast Club such a cult classic among Gen-X ers? Is it the great charaters portrayed by a wonderful cast? Is the nerdy principal we all love to hate? It is the endlessly quoteable lines?--"Does Barry Manilow know that you raid...

Pros: shows what teens are dealing with while making you laugh
Cons: i'm not as young as when i first saw it

Who didn't love Molly Ringwald ? As a teen of the 80's i went to see this movie with a friend due to the fact Molly was in it . I actually found myself enjoying the film ,
It really made me realize how as an athlete that liked to party , I was...

Pros: good acting and story
Cons: no sequel

This is one of my favorite movies of all time.Its about 5 high school students that have to serve detention all day saturday at the school.The 5 kids are from different social groups-"cliqs".A prep-stuck up girl,a shy girl,a nerd/geek,an...

Pros: The movie did'nt go overboard like a few others.
Cons: Could've found a couple better actors.

I have to admit, I have seen a lot of movies with teens and school, and not to mention some of the classics like Fast Times... and Porky's. I was about 16 when I heard about this film, My girlfriend at the time was talking about Emilio Estevez and...

Pros: None
Cons: Dull, tedious, arduous, cheesy, dated, pretentious and sadly overrated by millions

Plot:Annoyingly arrogant teens discuss each others lives while in detention in a predictible farce. A group of teenagers get dropped off at detention by their parents at 7am. They start off arrogant and rebelious. Each of them questions why on earth ...

Pros: The plot, characters, development of the story
Cons: nothing

Every kid that has grown-up has encountered the same problems as the prom queen, rebel, jock, nerd and the misunderstood. The movie starts out the way every Saturday detention does. They are imprisoned in the library for the day, by the trying-to-be-hip...

Pros: The best 80's teen movie! Great acting, cast, direction. 100% entertainment
Cons: none

Here is a classic 80's teen comedy drama...Great performances, and entertainment! John Hughes is the KING of teen flicks, with movies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles and Weird Science what else could he be?

"You see as...

Pros: Great movie
Cons: none

What can I say about the Breakfast Club? I can say that it was great! The brat pack in true form. I loved how they all "hated" each other, then bonded together and had some fun. My favorite part is, of course, when they get stoned in the...

Pros: Great storyline, humorous at times
Cons: Stereotypes are too dramatic

Ever since the classic 80s movie The Breakfast Club was released in 1985, it has been considered an instant classic. The basic plot of the movie is that there are 5 teenagers in high school, all belonging to different social cliques. They all, for some ...

Pros: A real classic and good for any age.
Cons: A little slow storyline not to exciting.

This really was a good movie for the mid 1980's but for me nowadays it is just a little slow and a little boring especially since I have seen it so many times. It's basically about teenage high schoolers that get detention and have sit in the library all ...

Pros: the perfect depiction of high school, good acting
Cons: none

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...

Pros: Hilarious and Serious at the same time, great directing and actors
Cons: Doesn't go into great detail about why each character has detention

I first saw this movie because of my friend. She had watched it about a million and one times and decided that i needed to see it too. I was hesitant at first. I thought it would just be some sappy 80's movie with bad picture qualityand talentless...

Pros: Lots of good lessons and funny humor
Cons: None!

My high school could've severely used a breakfast club. The movie teaches you about accepting peoples' differences and there's more to people than just what is presented on the outside. This lesson is a very important one for life. The movie itself ...

Pros: Greatest Movie for pre-teens and teens
Cons: Should have had a sequal!

I saw this movie when it first came out in 1985. I had graduated from High School two years earlier and wished this movie had come out when I first entered high school. This is a movie that all young teens should see. All five stars represent most of...

Pros: Stars brat - pack actors/actresses, comedy, uplifting
Cons: None

Anyone who lived a significant portion of their life in the eighties will appreciate this classic. Starring brat - pack superstars Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, and Anthony Michael Hall this movie brings out the true feelings...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

I absolutely love The Breakfast Club. This has to be the best brat pack movie that was made. It is funny and has the great story.

This movie is about 5 students who are forced to spend a Sat. in detention. We have Jude Nelson who plays a...

Pros: Great 80s High School Movie
Cons: none

Breakfast Club is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The story is supposedly a reflection on the High School times of the Director.

Five students spend a Saturday in detention hall for various reasons. The movie is about their day...

Pros: Great Movie, and Cheap
Cons: Little Older, and no Great Special Effects

The Breakfast Club, an older movie that still brings laughter to the screen every time you watch it. I have seen this movie a thousand times, as I am sure we all have, but it just keeps getting better. The cast of characters is just unstoppable when...

Pros: funny, very 'period'
Cons: some foul language, nothing like today's movies, though.

If you like anything from the 80s period, you will love this movie! It is just so cute - trite, probably, but cute!

If you have been in school for any length of time at all, you will empathize with at least one of the characters, guaranteed!...

Pros: Funniest, movie of the 80's
Cons: Can think of one!!!!

This has to be the best movie of the eighties!!!! Who else can produce a movie about 5 high school teenagers in detention on a Saturday. The actors/actresses in the movie also helped it become one of the all time favorite movies of the eighties. I...

Pros: Intelligent, funny and true to life
Cons: It ended

Think back to when you were in high school. Where you the most popular? a jock? a nerd or a geek? a rebel? or did you just keep to yourself? I was a rebel in all senses of the word!

The Breakfast club is about five teenagers, all from...

Pros: Recall the past experiences of high school
Cons: Movie ended quickly/Characters not fully developed

Take yourself back to high school. Did people typecast you as a prep,
a jock, an outsider, a nerd, or a bully? Have you maintained this role or has it changed? Did it prevent you from making new friends?

Once you watch this movie, you...

Pros: Entertaining, fun to watch especially when you're bored
Cons: Nothing

My theory holds truth. I just wrote an opinion about "Sixteen Candles," also starring Moly Ringwald and surprisingly the geek too (Anthony Michael Hall), saying that if Molly Ringwald is in it, it must be worth watching. And now here I am...

Pros: funny with a point
Cons: lot of cursing

This movie is one of the movies from the brat pack. I believe this was the first movie these actors acted together in. I have seen this movie at least 50 times in the last 15 years and it still makes me laugh. Even though it is funny it brings a good...

Pros: Cheesy American Classic
Cons: essentially no storyline

This is another one of those Cheesy American Classics. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE THIS MOVIE! I laugh hysterically through the entire thing, even when it is not supposed to be funny. But I have gotten to the point now where I notice everything to...

Pros: Excellent view of a typical teenager
Cons: NONE

I was....fifteen!, when this movie came out. I enjoyed it then just as I do now. How can one not like this movie. Not only are the actors excellent together, but the music makes the movie.

I like how they all come together to spend a Saturday...

Pros: Everything
Cons: None

Remember how in high school there were all those little cliques? This movie has them all. It stars Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Judd Nelson. All of them portray students in a Saturday detention for various...

Pros: beautiful people, good acting, teenagers!
Cons: saturday morning detention- rough for them, easy on you.

Could John Hughes have cast a better set of actors and actresses? Could he have written a better script that depicted suburban teenage life? Probably not. This movie is perfect in every way possible.
If you did not go to a school like this one then...

Pros: funny, charming, easy to relate to
Cons: -

I must have seen this movie a dozen times and still it is a great movie. This movie can make you laugh hysterically. I would not want to hear of someone not ever watching this movie, young people (especially me when I first saw it) can really relate...

Pros: Everything
Cons: NA

Despite being made in 1985, this movie still impresses me as a great comedy with the seriousness of teenage growth portrayed simultaneously.
Here, five high school students with seemingly nothing in common - Each is stereotyped accordingly with...

Pros: realistic, great acting
Cons: that dang music scene

The Breakfast Club has to be one of the most realistic movies that i have ever seen. From the beginnig of the movie to the end, the characters and their surroundings are easily related to by viewers.Although this movie was made many a year ago, teenages...

Pros: a great movie
Cons: nothing

The Breakfast Club is a '80s classic. Since the first time I ever saw the movie, I loved it. It's about a group of kids from different cliques in school all having Saturday detention together. They learn to respect each other and became friends. My...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

Probably the best teen movie to come out of the 80's. It really shapes the way people see different groups in high schools now. Bender's the best example of this. Judd Nelson was fantastic in this role. I think Breakfast Club is one of the best teen...

Pros: Great movie to watch w friends
Cons: a lot of swearing

I love this Movie! This movie is the ultimate 80's flick! I still watch it! This movie is about several teenagers stuck at school in a Saturday detention. With nothing in common they find out through several funny experiences that, though their lives...

Pros: relate to characters easily - pulls out your emotions
Cons: nostalgia of high school

The Breakfast Club -- a classic lesson in 80's teen angst. This movie certainly is a classic and, dare I say, a starting point for future movies like Clerks to follow.
First of all, there are more brat pack stars featured in this movie than you can...

Pros: Greatest movie ever written
Cons: Nothing!

The Breakfast Club is the greatest movie ever made. Not only is it writen by a ginuess (John Hughes) but the cast is phenominal! Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall are the perfect people to play the roles...

Pros: chillin out with the bratpack
Cons: there's really no plot

This is my all time favorite movie. With an all-star cast of Judd Nelson, Emilio Estivez, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Molly Ringwald this is possibly the greatest line-up of all time and what really started it all as the famously known...

Pros: opposites can attract
Cons: they can't really get away with that

The Breakfast Club, was a movie that started a trend of teen movies. It must have given directors a push and it gave us, teenagers more movies, thank god. Not that watching movies with our parents isn't bad. But you can totally relate to the...

Pros: lovely
Cons: none

I'd be surprised if there were ever a negative review of this movie. For what it is- the picture of teen angst in the 80s, it is perfect. The story is painful and wonderful. The cast shines. The soundtrack is good. Movie snobs may snicker...but it's...

Pros: Great actors, great plot, classic ending
Cons: a little stereotypical 80s

"Breakfast Club" is the movie of the 80s. If there is only one 80s movie that you see, let it be this one. If you haven't seen it, you are in the minority. It is seen by High Schoolers around the nation every year. If you are past that...

Pros: its the best
Cons: none

I first saw "The breakfast club" on a saturday on tnt. i was enchanted by the plot it was the greatest thing i had ever seen. im just a kid but i loved it.

this movie is great. it depicts 5 totally different teenagers who at the end...

Pros: Excellent story line
Cons: none

This movie is one that I have seen over and over again. This movie is absolutely amazingly well written, performed, and directed. The plot is really kinda dumb, in that these students must spend their Saturday in detention, but the way it is written,...

Pros: The script is emotional and makes a splendid movie out of one day in detention.
Cons: Maybe that its from the eighties.. but naw.. not really..

It almost seems redundant to place any words here, for "Breakfast Club" is already hailed by many others as a perfect specimen of a movie. Yet, I write this now, only to make it known that yes, indeed, I as well very much value B.C. as being a superb film.

In the best of ways Breakfast Club captures the very essence of high school in its script. The confrontations that the characters have, are on target with the type of conflict that occur in school.

It is solid in dramatic content but is furious in its comedic portions. I loved Judd Nelson in this... he was truly.. Bad A$$. All the other characters were splendid as well.


Breakfast Club is a story of teen difficulties and shows the different types of turmoil that teens can go thru..

Now content wise.. this movie is filled with profanity and also much sexuality.. so if you don't like that kind of stuff, keep away... but let me tell you that the fact that it holds that language is proof of reality.. high school is filled with that and many other realistic stuff that this film shows..

- ZeN

Pros: Great writing. Great acting
Cons: the antigay attitudes. but such was the attitude of the 80's teen

being a senior in high school the year this movie came out, i can fully relate to all the characters. I used to see all 5 types walking the halls of my high school. To anybody who was a teenager during the 80's, this was your life. It's kind of funny to realize that some of the teens from that time now have children of their own. Many of the problems they share on that saturday afternoon in detention can be related to teens today. It's definately a movie to sit back with a few friends on a rainy day and watch.

Pros: - Highly entertaining! - Accurately depicts high school cliques. - Spectacular acting!!
Cons: - A joke without a punchline. - A couple over-the-top moments.

The Breakfast Club is a movie depicting Saturday detentions in high school. It shows the views from the sides of each clique. Geek, Popular, Rebel, Outcast, and Jock.

The film has great acting from the seven actors in the film (Yes, seven. Not including the extras who play parents.) The movie will keep you wondering, laughing, and smiling.

The Breakfast Club will always be a classic film of the 1980's, and it will always be favored.

Pros: Funny, somewhat realistic, good soundtrack for the time
Cons: If you actually found any you have way too much time on your hands!

I don't think that anyone can honestly say that they were not one of these people in high school. To say that any of you weren't is just a bold faced lie. To say that the dialog is dated, while this is the case, it is not necessary to state the obvious. This movie is 20 years old, of course the dialog is dated. So is any movie from the 1970's. Anyone who didn't like this movie has to be a very boring and sad person.