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The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen coming of age comedy-drama film written and directed by John Hughes. The storyline follows five teenagers (each a member of a different high school clique) as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes.
Critically, it is considered to be one of the greatest high school-teen films of all time, as well as one of Hughes' most memorable and recognizable works.
The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in the fictitious Chicago suburb of Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24, 1984. While not complete strangers, the five teenagers are each from a different clique or social group.
The five students—Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy), Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez), John Bender (Judd Nelson), Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall), and Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald)—who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats or sleep by the antagonistic principal, Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason), supervising them. They are to remain for a period of eight hours, fifty-four minutes (from 7:06 A.M. to 4 P.M., the only indication of time being on a clock that is 20 minutes fast). He assigns a no less than 1000-word essay, (in which each student must write about who he or she thinks they are) and then leaves them mostly unsupervised, returning only occasionally to check on them. Bender, who has a particularly negative relationship with Mr. Vernon, disregards the rules and riles the other students, mocking Brian and Andrew, and sexually harassing Claire. Allison remains oddly quiet except for the occasional random outburst.
Actors: Howard Braunstein (producer), Michael Jaffe (producer), Don Francks (actor), Nigel Bennett (actor), Bradford May (director), Lynn Josephson Delaney (miscellaneous crew), Bradford May (actor), Dean Stockwell (actor), Wendie Malick (actress), Shelley A. Boylen (miscellaneous crew), Donald Quan (actor), Chandra West (actress), Karen Holness (actress), Diego Fuentes (actor), Cynthia Preston (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,Actors: Howard Braunstein (producer), Michael Jaffe (producer), Don Francks (actor), Nigel Bennett (actor), Bradford May (director), Lynn Josephson Delaney (miscellaneous crew), Bradford May (actor), Dean Stockwell (actor), Wendie Malick (actress), Shelley A. Boylen (miscellaneous crew), Donald Quan (actor), Chandra West (actress), Karen Holness (actress), Diego Fuentes (actor), Cynthia Preston (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,