Agreed! I hated that! Her character went from dark to "everything's fine now because I'm pretty and dating a jock" and that's so.... Bullshit!

At 52 (born before the wheel, but after fire), I can say characters like Ally Sheedy's role turned out to be the best people on the planet. The jocks and popular girls, not so much. And I'm not talking about money on this. I've seen the same "Allison" both rich and poor, turn out to be great human beings. The "Claires", not so much. Not saying there aren't great "Claire's" out there, but I agree -- the whole "jockism and pretty-ism is the goal" was a complete turn-off for me.

Agree with that. It's like all of the movies where a plain girl gets a haircut and makeup and is suddenly popular.

As for the movie as a whole, it's just a reminder that it's good to talk to people outside your circle - many have similar feelings and struggles.

I say no. Allison would have burned the school down.

Ooooh, it has goth girls. Sounds like I have to watch it after all. Does she have big tiddies and dominates people or is she a goth girl in looks only?

I was alive and working in the 90's and 00's -- Please excuse me if I laugh, when I was a kid I thought people older than me didn't experience the 70's or 80's either!

But yes, I wasn't "growing up" in your coming-of-age times. My culture in school was a lot different than my Boomer parents had when they were in school (and likely different than what you had, although I'd say not as much as you think). My generation was the first generation to realize we wouldn't make it past our economic class no matter what we did. My own father doesn't speak to me, because I didn't "bust my ass" as "hard as he did" and own two houses before I turned 30 (I'm 52 now -- a loser even by your generation's account!). He knows nothing of how the middle class no longer captures 25% of GDP like they did in the 60's and 70's (we now capture 7% with two incomes), how real estate has skyrocketed because the politicians that own all the land keep utility companies from expanding the grid to perfectly habitable land outside the grid (if you buy land out in the sticks, there's zero utilities for you -- it's $20k per electrical pole installed and I won't even mention the water/sewer supply that was provided by the government back in their day when they bought their land "in the sticks"). So my generation was 100% raised and judged on "you gotta do better than us, like we did to the Silent Generation" while they stole the utilities and prevented us from recycling the very recipe they used for success. And then tossed us all in the garbage because they took away the very mechanism they used for "success".

And I want to say thanks for your reply. Seriously.

I, myself, told my father to go F himself a very long time ago. Haven't spoken in over 25 years. I hope he's dead. And hope the people like him die as well.

That being said, in school it was a very new thing to treat people of different skin colors as equal. It was huge. The "N" word was used frequently in the house I grew up in. At my grandfather's house, it was the de facto adjective for anything bad. I grew up split. Found out many years later we're all just a bunch of people trying to survive, most are good, some are bad. True with every color or occupation.

I think you and I would agree on some of the heartfelt moments. To be honest, those are the only saving qualities of the movie in my opinion. There are a few. Wishing you the best, sorry for my rant!

At the same time -- Food and shelter are obviously important. Never put your vote or money on anything that jeopardizes either. My 2 cents...

The song came out long before I ever saw the movie -- and yes! I didn't like the way the movie stretch out the chords in the beginning! Brroooon--wooooooooooon-wooong-wooooooooooon-woong-woon-wooooong! It almost made me turn the movie off!

The Breakfast Club was a 1985 movie depiction of teen rebellion for GenX teens written and directed by John Hughes where the teens act out against the rules and are smarter than the adults around them.

Not to be confused with "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" which was a 1986 movie depiction of teen rebellion for GenX teens written and directed by John Hughes where the teens act out against the rules and are smarter than the adults around them.

I prefer the latter to the former.

Mainly only if you're into film as a hobby. Don't get me wrong, the stuff others have said about the story itself make it a good watch overall.

But it's no better in that regard than any other teen drama movie.

It's the way it was done that really makes it significant, imo.

Hughes had this really distinct visual style. Bright, vibrant, and kinda larger than life. He used it to take a look at slices of life that were, in the breakfast club, angsty as fuck. Most scenes are vivid, and the drama plays out in that almost candy coated world.

Since the cast was perfect for their roles, something else Hughes was great at imo, they managed to each fulfill their stereotype in a way that pops out of the screen. The very artificialiality of the cinematography and the almost cheesy costuming allows you to skip past a lot of immersion barriers and just enjoy the characters and dialogue.

Hughes was really good at that balance. The Breakfast Club is the best example of his vision. And, because it influenced so many other filmmakers and the industry, it's an important one to watch from that perspective, even if it isn't really going to resonate as well with someone born much later. Not that it can't, or won't at all, just that the entirety of teen living shifted post internet, and much of the gen Y range falls into that era.

So, yeah, if you're into film as a hobby or more serious interest, you need to see it, and Ferris Bueler. Maybe throw in uncle buck as well as planes, trains and automobiles. Those two are kind of inverse because they're built as comedies first, and that makes the vibe of the drama in them work different than his drama first movies (though Bueler may be debated about which it actually was as a base)

It's a group of Saturday detention kids from the 80s. A slice of teen life movie. You could probably see if there's still similar concepts or what's changed about society since. It has many flaws but raises a number of issues that teens faced around that time.

Up to you, man. I won't give you a reason either way.