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Watch: The Breakfast Club 1985 123movies, Full Movie Online – Beyond being in the same class at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, Brian Johnson and Allison Reynolds have little in common, and with the exception of Claire and Andrew, do not associate with each other in school. In the simplest and in their own terms, Claire is a princess, Andrew an athlete, John a criminal, Brian a brain, and Allison a basket case. But one other thing they do have in common is a nine hour detention in the school library together on Saturday, March 24, 1984, under the direction of Mr. Vernon, supervising from his office across the hall. Each is required to write a minimum one thousand word essay during that time about who they think they are. At the beginning of those nine hours, each, if they were indeed planning on writing that essay, would probably write something close to what the world sees of them, and what they have been brainwashed into believing of themselves. But based on their adventures during that nine hours, they may come to a different opinion of themselves and the other four..
Plot: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently — and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
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_**Forced, artificial dialogs with eye-rolling character arcs**_

Released in 1985 and written & directed by John Hughes, “The Breakfast Club” is a teen dramedy about five high school students from five different sub-cultures during an all-day detention over the weekend at their suburban Chicago school. Molly Ringwald plays the popular girl, Emilio Estevez the jock, Anthony Michael Hall the Brainiac nerd, Judd Nelson the dope-smoking rebel and Ally Sheedy the neurotic misfit. Paul Gleason and John Kapelos are on hand as the host principal and janitor respectively

This movie has a big reputation as an 80’s teen flick, but I was wholly disappointed. Most of the discussions between the five students from different cliques come across contrived and unconvincing. Some of the dialog is actually cringe-inducing.

The hoodlum could’ve worked as a character, like the Fonz or Vinnie Barbarino, but he’s such an annoying, loud-mouthed jerk that he loses all sympathy, particularly when he verbally rapes the redhead on multiple occasions for no ostensible reason. *** SPOILER ALERT*** The fact that the two end up together at the end adds insult to injury. ***END SPOILER*** Not to mention two others that unrealistically couple up.

It’s strange that “The Breakfast Club” is billed as a comedy because there’s very little that’s funny, although it’s occasionally entertaining, like some of the music sequences. Unfortunately, Hughes wasn’t into the heavier side of rock and so the soundtrack consists solely of bland 80’s new wave bands, like his other 80’s teen flicks (e.g. “Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”). Don’t get me wrong, there are a couple of quality songs, like “We Are Not Alone” by Karla DeVito, but where are the heavier popular bands of 1984, like Van Halen, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Ratt, Dokken, Queensryche, Def Leppard, AC/DC or Motley Crue? Is it asking too much to have ONE song that actually rocks?

But the music is the least of the movie’s problems (and isn’t really a problem at all, except that there aren’t any heavy tracks). The actors are fine, but Hughes’ dialog is unconvincing. As such, you don’t buy the characters. The script needed a serious rewrite.

The movie runs 97 minutes and was shot in the suburbs north of Chicago.

GRADE: C-

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The brain, the athlete, the princess, the basket case, and the criminal – yes we’re talking about _The Breakfast Club_. It’s been dubbed as a seminal film of the 1980s and takes a place as an intergenerational classic.

_They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7.00am they had nothing to say, but by 4.00pm they had bared their souls to each other and become The Breakfast Club._

Directed by John Hughes and starring Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy it rightly deserves that spot as a revered movie. It’s very much a comedy-drama and is surprisingly deep in parts, like the scene toward the end where they are all explaining what they did to get the detention. The acting is brilliant, and even though there is a very small cast, its basically the five members of The Breakfast Club and the Vice Principal, they hold your attention because they are so good.

What I particularly liked was how they took the standard college stereotypes and then slowly deconstructed them over the course of the movie, and showed that they actually all had a lot in common. They all had their loves and hates, their sensitivities, and the burden of expectation from their parents, the school, and society as a whole.

It’s funny, it’s sad, and by the time it concludes, it’s quite uplifting, and if it’s been a while since you saw it, it might be time to load it up for another look. If you’ve never seen it, then I suggest you check it out for a great time capsule of a movie that has themes that still resonate today.

The cream of the crop in 80’s fare.
This movie is one of the best, if not THE best, 80’s film there is. The fact is, every teen character in this movie can be related to someone we knew in high-school. As a child of the 80’s, I can honestly say that this is a representative cross-section of every high school in North America. The geek, the jock, the outcast, the rich pretty-girl snob, and the future criminal. They all exist, to some degree or another, in the classrooms of every high school on the continent.

What makes this film rise above the rest is the character development. Every character in this film is three-dimensional. They all change, in one way or another, by the end of the film. Whether or not things remain the way they are long after this film ends is unknown, and that adds to the rama. The most important scene in this film is when the characters, as a group, all open up to one-another and describe the hell that their daily school routines are in a personal fashion. Nobody likes the role they must inevitably portray in the high-school scene, but the fact is, it is often inescapable. This film gives the viewer some insight into how the other people around them might have felt during that particular time in their lives.

Each of the main characters in this film shines, but Judd Nelson (John Bender) and Emilio Estevez (Andrew Clark) rise above the rest. Simply put, these two actors each put their heart and soul into their respective characters, and it shows.

At the end of the film, the viewer is left to make their own conclusions as to how things will carry forth. And I’m sure that most people will do that. This is one movie that left me feeling both happy and sad for each of the characters, and it isn’t easy to make me care about a film in that way. Even if you aren’t a fan of the 80’s genre, this isn’t one you would want to miss.

My Rating: 10/10

One big cliché made up of lots of little clichés
I just watched this on AMC. At first I was gonna give it 6/10, then later revised that down to 3/10 and by the end of the movie I was at rock bottom – 1/10.

Why does this movie suck so badly? Not because it wasn’t well made, or badly acted, but rather because the the story itself is just so awful. What we have here are a bunch of smaller clichés that add it to some very big clichés. All the principal characters are clichés, and so are all of the premises of this film. You have five high school kids who are all stock high school characters – the jock, the brain, the popular pretty girl, the long haired greaser “Tough guy” and, finally, the misfit. They are all stuck in detention for a day, under the supervision of the 6th cliché, the (I think) assistant principal, the perfect personification of (from the teenagers’ POV) mindless adult authority. He might as well wear a swastika armband, so one dimensional is his character.

Now, I suppose a conceit of this movie is the five kids aren’t really clichés at all, but actual, real individuals who are forced into their roles by the neverending forces of social conformity (which is in itself yet another cliché), except, of course, they aren’t. The jock really IS a jock, the brain a nerd, the popular girl popular, and so forth. None of them emerge as a true three dimensional character, at best they display a bit of two dimensions before reverting back to their one dimensional selves. And the principal doesn’t even get that privilege, his character is a one dimensional authoritarian goon and is never allowed to rise above that basic stereotype.

Speaking of adults, virtually every last one of them comes off badly, indeed, very badly. They, as described by the kids, are little more than beasts who demand perfection from their offspring and show an almost total lack of love or even affection. This is one of the movie’s biggest clichés, the notion of teenagers as being wise beyond their years while their parents are essentially abusers, if not physically then certainly emotionally. Portraying all adults as rotten is not only completely unrealistic, it also feeds into the worst sort of egotism on the part of the presumed teenage audience for a movie such as this.

Okay, so the kids (and their principal) are all a bunch of clichés. That’s bad enough, but this film has other flaws as well. One, the misfit character, played by Ally Sheedy, seems to have no basis in reality at all. And nothing about the movie explains why she is who she is. Further, how clichéd (spoiler alert) is it that she ends up with the jock, this, after getting a makeover courtesy of the popular girl? Wouldn’t it have been less of a cliché for her to end up with the brain? Also, her character would have been a lot more believable had she been genuinely unattractive, say, 30 lbs overweight, acne, and hair that was greasy looking because she never washed it. Instead, it was like – 5 minutes with a mascara brush and a little work on the hair and, Ta Da! she’s beautiful! And a completely different person, too! Still, hers was probably the most likable character of the bunch, and she probably should have ended up with the nerd. By that standard, by FAR the most detestable character was the greaser. The tough guy with a heart of gold is an old staple in American entertainment, such notables include The Fonz and Vinnie Barbarino. But this guy has more like the heart of a sewer rat. That he is rude and defiant of authority is to be expected of this type of character, but his verbal attacks on the others, especially Molly Ringwald’s character, border on verbal rape, so cruel and sadistic are his attacks on her. He was the one character whom you wanted to see the principal beat into a bloody pulp, unfortunately, that didn’t happen. His is the worst cliché of them all, the sort of person, because he is a self-proclaimed “Rebel” and non-conformist, is transformed from being a complete A__hole into the conscience of sorts for this film. It is his character, perhaps more than all the others combined, who ruined this movie for me. Cruelty and sadism have their place in the movies (think “Apocalypse Now”) but they absolutely don’t belong in what is supposed to be a light teenage comedy.

And that’s about it. When I first saw this back in the 1980’s (on HBO, probably) I didn’t think this movie was particularly good or back. But having now seen it just a couple hours ago, I think it truly sucks.

1/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min)
Budget 1000000
Revenue 51525171
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director John Hughes
Writer John Hughes
Actors Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald
Country United States
Awards 4 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono, Dolby Stereo (uncredited), Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold, Panavision Super Speed and Ultra Speed Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,656 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format) (2015 remaster), Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384)