Breakfast Club

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...