Reacting to THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) | Movie Reaction
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Reacting to THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) | Movie Reaction 
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13:55 Mister Roger's hosted a children's show for many many years, almost every American alive today grew up watching him. He was the most kind and gentle person you could imagine on camera and in real life.
agreed -- definitely worth looking up. there's a biopic of him from a few years back, but it's better to watch some actual footage of him both on set and in the talk-show circuit.
@@xylok_dnb2444 I still haven't worked up the emotional fortitude to watch the biopic yet.
@@Cerridwen7777 it's not really about him, but about a reporter hired to do a piece on him. Tom Hanks does an okay job, but there's nothing like the real thing.
If that Mister Rogers movie came out now, he'd be played by Cardi B.
After Fred Roger's died in the early 2000's, a new show , based on his principles of kindness, empathy, and friendship, was created. The main character is Daniel Tiger, a tiger cub living with his parents and baby sister. Daniel is the animated version of a puppet Mister Roger's used in his show. The characters from the original program were recreated for the animated show. The theme songs are the same. Both shows are amazing to watch.
I'll always consider myself lucky that I was a teenager when John Hughes was making films like this and wonder what the kids of subsequent generations see as their own Breakfast Clubs. Whatever that happens to be, it's difficult to believe that it holds a candle to what we were given in the 80s.
John Hughes was a genius!
What was great about Hughes as a writer was the characters said and did things appropriate for their age.
Nowadays, the dialogue and plots of far too many "teenager" shows are indistinguishable from adult shows, other than the age of the actors.
@@pwmel1 Honestly I would hesitate to call him a genius because there was a time were his writing suffered but I would definitely say that he had a gift of reading the room and keeping tabs of what was current and classic or in other words he had a gift of catching lightning in a bottle.
I agree, the 80's had some pretty damn good stuff! My fav, "St-Elmo's Fire", was also released in 1985, and starred some of this cast, this time playing their age, as young adults. Talented bunch!
In the previous decade, our biggest coming-of-age movie was, "American Graffiti" (1973), which, ironically, was a look back at the '50s! lol
(If you are not familiar, it's the film G. Lucas did just before Star Wars, it's brilliant.)
As a 90s baby, this movie was that for me. I remember seeing it as a preteen and how impactful it was. It didn’t exactly represent what high school was like for me but it did represent this universal teenage experience. It’s a timeless movie!
It's been 40 years since I was in high school (the Dutch equivalent, that is), but that scene where they're all opening up still brings tears to my eyes. This is a powerful movie.
The actors playing Claire and Brian were 17 years old, Allison and Andrew were 23 and Bender was 26.
The movies you mentionned, all were filmed in the same school, actually.
If you like John Hugues movies, you may be interested to watch :
Uncle Buck (1989)
Dutch (1991)
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Weird Science (1985)
Career Opportunities (1991)
Class Reunion (1982) (same kind of silly humour than Airplane)
Yeah, the othe day I saw a recent interview with Anthony Michael Hall, the guy who plays Brian the Geek, and the interviewer asked him if the cast got along while filming this movie and he joked that they did get along but they didn't really spend that much time together off screen because he and Molly Ringwald (Claire, the rich girl) had to do their homework and the rest of the cast were off going to bars and spending times with their spouses and kids.
Uncle Buck is a must see. John Candy was a treasure!
*Some Kind Of Wonderful (writer)
@@gregall2178 She’s Having A Baby
I watched career opportunities last night just due to the Mr.kitty after dark fan made video.
Should have trusted my instincts. The only reason to watch that is Jennifer Connelly.
The hot beef injection now has a whole new meaning for Dawn from now on 🤣
Did it have another meaning? 😂
@@3DJapan Well, maybe not the "injection" part. It sounds pretty obvious what it means haha
@@hissatsu4937 Sounds like a bad idea for an Arby's slogan.
In Pennsylvania we used Pork Injection!
Jesus Christ, grow up
THE classic movie of my teenage years. It's fun and entertaining, but than also deep, serious, and has a message that still applies. So much more than the typical 80s teen-comedy.
Likewise, this is the movie that resonated with me more than any other in my teenage years. Don't You (Forget About Me) remains one of my favorite songs of all time. Poor Dawn - some of the American vernacular and/or 80s references seemed to throw her a little in places.
FWIW, though it's mentioned at the end, there is never an actual explanation of the movie title. I've always chosen to interpret it to mean that these kids decided to continue getting together after this day, and realizing it wouldn't be feasible to associate in school, they opted to meet for breakfast before school once a week. I wonder how other people interpret it.
Mr. Rogers is a 'beloved American children's television character whose show ran from the 1960s till the 1990's. It was a educational show for small children.staring Fred Regers. There is a movie about the show starring Tom Banks.
Fred rogers was a national treasure, to many Americans who grew up in the 60's, 70's and 80's he was like a surrogate grandfather
He was INE of the rare celbrities that wss genuine and did not have any dark stuff in their personal life, he really cared about people and had a huge cultural impact on America by tackling hard subjects on his while in a way children could understand (topics like HUV/Aids, death, drugs, etc)
*Tom Hanks
I was in High School when this came out. I don't think that there was anybody NOT talking about it at the time. A hit me right in the feels classic.
Same here!
I graduated that same year, but didn't actually see it until it showed up on HBO a couple years later. However it does capture the culture of high school kids of that era pretty well.
Class of 85
In one of the frames at the start of the movie, you see that the cleaner won a student of the year award, they put that message in the movie to show being good in school doesn’t just guarantee a high paid job in the future
Or that he was a big man on campus then, but he's a janitor now.
It's a neat reference though too, that he and the principal have kind of the same experience. Their lives not turning out like they expected. The janitor being even lower paid than the principal, so in some ways more so in his case. Yet the janitor is friendly, not bitter, and rather a well together all around human being making the best of it. Besides some light smack talk about reading the kids notes, and hearing their conversations, he clearly likes the kids vs. the principal.
@@Logan_Baron Actually, I'll bet the janitor was paid better than the principal.
@@Logan_Baron, plus, Verner is an assistant principal. I didn't even really notice that until a couple of years ago after watching this movie regularly for many years. It explains why he was stuck doing Saturday detention and other things he didn't like.
@@Logan_Baron Ya know, it's true about Carl. He's there smiling, saying goodbye to the kids and also spent time talking with the bitter assistant principal, who I bet is rethinking a Lot of things because of him
John Hughes was the first director who treated teenagers like they were actual human brings; people with real feelings, real problems, and real social pressure. Also, he was an absolute MASTER at using music as a way to go along with the plot.
You have an extremely limited grasp of coming of age stories if you honestly believe that. While this tells what it was like to be a teen in a very upper and middle class mid-western environment in the 80's. Hughes scrip is far from the first to get teens and young people right. You should expand your entertainment experiences Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Clemons, Betty Smith, Charles Dickens, James Baldwin, Harper Lee, Salinger, Bronte christ man the list goes on and way further back into era's most American schools fail to teach kids to read for an understanding of the actual past of this nation.
Simply put, people have been accurately telling coming of age stories since writing was invented.
@@noneya3635 yeah, ok.
@@noneya3635 That’s a great list of DIRECTORS you gave, numbnuts. Way to completely not understand the assignment🤦♂️
@@noneya3635 He said Hughes was the first director. Not the first person ever.
@@bossfan49 Yeah I can read, but Hughes was also the writer of the movie in case you missed that bit. Hence my reply about his being the first to accurately depict teens as human beings.
OMFG she said "Who is Mr. Rogers." Mr Rogers was the purest soul in American kids television history, the patron saint of Gen Xers.
No one has heard if it.
Look up (Google) Fred Rogers/Mr. Roger's Neighborhood (USA)
And she would know that how?
Young people today got no culture
@@dr.burtgummerfan439
And zero respect. No wonder everyone hates them.
This is my generation's angst movie, and it still hits hard as I watch it decades since I was a dumb confused teen. Hughes had a way of capturing the feeling of being a kid during some really terrifying and changing times all while making one forget all that was out there to be scared of. Brilliant movies and I am loving how you and others are rediscovering these and connecting to them.
I was in high school in 1984 and this movie is very accurate to the times. At least in America. There were different cliques that only associated with others like them and shunned others. There were the jocks, burnouts, brains, cheerleaders, nerdy girls, and etc. This movie made a good point that if the different cliques spent enough time together, they would realize that they arent much different and could get along.
Yeah... except for the really weird kids that they all get together and decide to keep as outcasts. Y'know, just to cement that new feeling of solidarity.
And only Ferris Bueller could navigate them all.
I read somewhere that the Breakfast Club had an influence in schools during the 80s. People from different groups would try to come together in their own breakfast clubs. Very interesting and culturally profound movie. I showed it to my class.
The best movie ever made about high school teenage peer pressure, this is why this movie is timeless
It’s about teenage peer pressure and bad parents!! They all had bad parents.
Valley Girl was another early ‘80s “teen” movie worth watching with an excellent sound track.
Yep, and Fast Times and Risky Business. It's like people in the business knew what they were doing back then.
Have you been getting laid, Suzie ?
I'll stop the world and melt with you!
@@light9999especially fast times lmao.
Since you asked, in the U.S., "fag" is a slur for a gay male. It used to be frequently thrown around as an insult, but is much less sociay acceptable today than it was in the 80s.
EDIT: in answer to your subsequent question, yes, it's short for "faggot," which in the U.S. is the same slur. Nobody uses "fag" to mean a cigarette, or "faggot" to mean a bundle of sticks.
Glad someone had the stones to say it, so I don't gotta. 😌
Or meatballs.
As a born and bread Yank, first time I was driving in Britain -- some 35 years ago -- I swerved off the road because I was laughing too hard at a billboard that read "Your faggots deserve Maggie's Sauce"
It's hard enough driving on the wrong side of the road, without seeing a sign that said that as I had no clue it was talking about meatballs. I kind of thought an entirely different type of balls were involved.
Great word and it should come back.
@@BishopWalters12 What?
Where I grew up the words just means an overly sensitive guy or a dude who tries to act too straight.
I’m sick of people being offended at everything. If you’re that weak minded that you’re brainwashed to give others power then lock yourself in a room, turn off your computer and put on noise cancelling headphones.
St Elmo's Fire is a spiritual successor to this with kids that have just left university. From this movie Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson (wildly different character) and Ally Sheedy alongside Andrew McCarthy (Mannequin), Rob Lowe (West Wing) and Demi Moore. These are prime Brat Pack Movies (as is Young Guns).
Then that might make Sixteen Candles the spiritual sister. Molly and Michael basically play the same characters.
Carl, the janitor, appears as man of the year 1969 on the high-school plaques.
He is also in 16 Candles
A great 80's soundtrack, fantastic cast of young faces, and a solid exploration of the trauma of youth. The quote from David Bowie's Changes sets the tone, and Brian's essay forms the bookends with Simple Minds' Don't You Forget About Me.
"Don't You Forget About Me" is my absolve favorite '80s song. I stop whatever I'm doing and listen to it.
Mine is probably And We Danced (or 100 Years if that was 80s) but Don't You is still WAY up there.
This movie became a ritual amongst my friends and I. Every Saturday night after the bar closed, we would head over to a buddy's house, continue to drink and watch this movie. We watched so often we all knew all the lines and would recite them while watching. To change things up, we decided to have each of us draw a character name from a hat and we would act out that character. Yes we were idiots, but we had fun.
A lot of the lines when they were sitting around in a circle were ad-libbed by the cast. The director John hughes wanted an authentic teenage viewpoint
“Are we gonna grow up to be our parents?”
“When you grow up, your heart dies”
The Breakfast Club is relatable to me because that's the way it was back then, I graduated in 1982. Every decade though has its Breakfast Club, there were always the trouble makers and the one-timers that end up in detention at one time or another. But everyone who has been to high school understands the struggles of teen angst, which is what the message was about, no matter what clique or category you belong to, no one can escape the pressures of being a teenager. Anyway, loved the review, love you, take care and stay safe ❤️
If you want to watch another 80's film that's a bit darker but with some of the same themes, look up the criminally underrated _Pump Up The Volume,_ with Christian Slater.
Really great film👍
Gleaming The Cube
Great reaction, Dawn Marie. John Hughes was great at writing these coming of age movies in the 80's. I'm a GenXer, so these were definitely the conversations we were having. As far as weed goes, you get stoned pretty quickly.
Molly Ringwald is much different. Wont let her daughter see this movie because of the (what she calls) sexual assault scene with Bender under the desk. She says John Hughes was sus for putting those things in his movies. She and her parents had no problems with it back then.
I'm with her.
_"I bet she tried to kill someone."_ Yeah, she got detention for attempted murder 😄 That's how we do it in The States.
normally it's just a slap on the wrist!
I'm married to a Brit. Their jail sentences are way more lenient and life in jail NEVER means that there.
Detention for doing a half assed job :)
I know, right? She really played right into stereotyping someone based on physical appearance then laughed at some of the most poignant comments. "When you grow up your heart dies." Allison doesn't mean it in the literal sense. But in the emotional sense. Also, Allison is the only one who chooses not to get high.
ALLIISON LOOKED BETTER BEFORE THE MAKEOVER!!!
Truth.
Loved your reactions, Dawn Marie.
This film had such an impact, when it was first released.
Incredible actors, all of whom have incredible acting careers.
Same not since the 1989 classic the wizard movie since I have seen such a good movie 😊
All of these from the 80's are great to watch. The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller. Fast Times At Ridgemont High should be on there as well. Great reaction Dawn.
Another vote for looking up Mr. Rogers - He was the kindest man ever & a pioneer of children's television!!!
When I heard Dawn asked for a pencil in detention, I knew she would be our prison gang leader.
I'm in!
I love how its all connected
The neard tried to off himself with a flare gun.
Bender pulled the fire alarm it was not a false alarm.
In the beginning you see a locker that has been burnt.
Brilliant writing
So many of us related to the kids back then, and it never occurred to me that I might someday relate to the adults too.
13:25 - it's pimento loaf, a cheap lunchmeat made of chopped meat, peppers, and pickles, and often baked in a distinctive loaf shape and sliced as a cold deli meat. My mom always bought it, and that was usually my reaction to it too, I never cared much for it.
I grew up during the height of the John Hughes/Brat Pack movie era of the 80s and early 90s. This has always been one of my favorites of the genre.
What did the naked lady say 🤣 that's the universal question 🤣
It’s called The Breakfast club because in the U.S Saturday detentions used to be common (some schools and states still do them) but it was more common for them to be half day from around 7:30am to around midday with all day ones being much later. This resulted in it gaining the nickname Breakfast club.
On the location of the movie being Chicago, all John Hughes movies are either set in or involved people from Chicago, specifically a made up suburb of Shermer
This flick makes me think of back in school days. I can't recall the specifics of it, but there was a group of 6 or 7 of us who would have a free session in the library. Because we didn't have as full a course load for semester, it left an open frame for like 48 minutes on some days, so the school scheduled all of our free sessions tossed into the same lot together. It wasn't any sort of detention or punishment, but we were supposed to report to library instead of roaming the halls. We didn't have the same classes, so sometimes some of us had work, and sometimes we all just casualized and talked random stuff to fill the time til next class started and we went our ways for what was left of the day. I can't remember who they all were, no idea where any are now. But part of me wouldn't mind being tossed back into the situation, if even for an hour
That is part of the appeal of this movie, whether we met other kids in detention or a playground when we might not have met them otherwise.
My mom dropped me off at the mall to see this flick when it came out lol. Loved growing up in the late 70s and 80s. Such great memories.
I think it's so popular because everyone can identify with something in the movie. I identified heavily with Brian since I was in the chess club and honor society. I remember the popular kids, and the jocks, and the stoners. We were all figuring out who we were even if most of us didn't know it at the time.
I dunno, man... I relate most to the space cadet and even she was cooler than I was. And that makeover nonsense is nothing more than "cool girl" charity. Come Monday you're just as messy and hated as ever. It's hard to watch people who had a place, even if it was low on the totem. The 80s was the worst, man.
I guess I am closest to the jock, since I played QB in football, captain of Tennis team. But I also got pretty near all As in multiple Honors classes, Physics, Calculus etc so I was near the top of my class, NHS, Student Council etc. And I drank beer and partied!! And we constantly quoted Monty Python skits. 😊
Never did any detention, which I heard was just a study hall anyway.
Epilogue : In five years Bender grew up and became an award winning sociologist, married Clair, hired Brian as his accountant/broker, the jock and basketcase moved to Oslo together and lived in peace with mutual adoration and respect. Principal realized 37k a year wasn’t worth it even in the 80’s and did a thing and isn’t around anymore. Carl is still the eyes and ears of this institution.
Bender(the cool guy) was 25 in real life when making this movie. The jock and weirdo girl was 23, and the nerd and the popular girl were both 17 years old when filming the movie.
I like that he, John Bender, smiled when the janitor said the clock was twenty minutes ahead ❤ Bender did it 😊
"We can ALL do that." *looks down, considers* "We can ALL do that!"
I watched to hear Dawn Marie sing 🎶and great bonus was the wonderful 80s classic movie reaction too!
the actor who plays Brian is the same actor who plays rusty in National Lampoons vacation.
One of my favorite John Hughes movies that no one reacts to is Some Kind of Wonderful.
Awesome movie. I had such a crazy crush on Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) in that movie. I mean, WOW. That short hair, the attitude, those clothes...and her hiding her crush on Keith the whole time.
Yeah, that one was fun. It had the ending Pretty in Pink should have had.
The meat she tossed on the statue out of her sandwich is olive and pimento loaf. Basically olives in bologna. I had it a lot as a kid and remember loving the stuff. Also every John Hughes movie is in a ficticus neighborhood in the Chicago suburbs called Shermer, Illinois. Essentially it's the North surburbs that they're always shot in, I used to play an annual american football game right in those neghborhoods for a couple years.
This is my favorite movie of all time, as an outcast in high school myself, Bender is one of the best characters of all time. Yeah, he's harsh, but because of him they all end up friends at the end of the day. Marijuana is the drug that brings people together... LOL It is true though...
The good ol peace pipe
@SMC GmailNope? Speak for yerself. U obviously have never toked with friends b4.
@@dannyjoe3343 Alright, it makes you smell like a dumpster fire. Life is challenging enough without smoking yourself stupider.
@SMC Gmail Lol, I’ve never heard of ‘weed parties,’ just parties🤦♂️
Loved your reaction. No matter how many years pass, teenagers and peer pressure will always be there.
The quintessential 80s teen movie, all due respect to Amy Heckerling's Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Cameron Crowe's Say Anything and all the other great John Hughes movies. It captured pretty much every white teenage stereotype at that time. Some people criticize John Hughes films for lack of diversity, and while we can criticize his depiction of Asian people in an otherwise instant classic like Sixteen Candles, he was a white guy from a small town near Chicago. He wrote scripts and made movies about things he was familiar with. It would have come off like Dave Chappelle in Robin Hood: Men In Tights at best, anyway. I find the character of Allison and how Ally Sheedy plays her, fascinating because even though I'm a guy, I was a lot like her in high school. Sure, I had the glasses that fit the nerd stereotype, and instead of ignoring me, my dad abused me, but the way she behaves brings back memories. One minute you're trying to convince people you don't care if they like you, the next you're volunteering information nobody asked for and making up stories just to fit in. As a writer, that "compulsive liar" thing got me. I had to lie about everything to preserve my sanity growing up, until I didn't know what the truth was anymore.
FERRIS BUELLER was 10 times funnier. That's the ultimate 80s teen movie. Close 2nd, Mischief.
I've always wondered why this NEVER became a stage presentation. One set, character strong, deep dialog, great music.... And a very Universal message.?.?.
The original title of the film was "The Lunch Bunch". Good thing someone talked John Hughes into changing it!! 😄
So "Breakfast Club" doesn't mean anything? It just sounded better than "Lunch Bunch"? Hm... fair.
@@BeeWhistler"Breakfast Club" was a term some schools had for detention because the students would arrive early in the morning (around breakfast time) for detention.
1985's "Don't You (Forget About Me)" was performed by the Scottish band called Simple Minds.
One of the most underrated bands of the 80s. New Gold Dream and Once Upon a Time are remarkable albums.
The school in this movie is the same one in Ferris Bueller's day off
This is still one of my favorite movies! Great reaction Dawn!! Ever since I saw this movie in the theatres on its initial release that it should be shown to every first year of high school class to kind of plant a seed as to what they can expect in their near future and after school. Yes, it's a very 80's movies with a great soundtrack but I still love it!! Have a terrific day Dawn all the way from Houston, Texas!!
This really IS a fantastic flick. They nailed so much about high school, families, even the principal's interaction with the janitor, it's all so relatable.
As for the ages when the film was made, Judd Nelson (Bender) was the oldest and about 24. Two were about 21 while Hall and Ringwald were the only actual teenagers.
My favorite movie as a teen. Weird Science and Better Off Dead are the others. Thanks for the reaction!
This brought back so many memories from high school, good and bad, thank you Dawn 🍻
Your reactions are precious. You always make me smile. Thanks kiddo.
Inside out sweater tops were a style mid 80s. I was in elementary school 10 years old when this movie came out, but I remember wearing inside out sweater tops in junior high / middle school.
Good reaction. This is a classic coming-of-age teen film of the 80s (for the US at least), assisted by a great hit from one of Scotland's finest rock bands of the decade, Simple Minds!
The way it leaves it open for the viewer to decide how the relationships between the cast will progress (or not) means you can interpret the future for these four as you want, and that's a key part of its success.
Dawn, you are the coolest, I LOVE your wacky sense of humor, your perceptiveness, your quick wit and your intuition, you always know what's going to happen before it happens, and you're so down to earth and relatable, you always make me laugh during your reactions with your quick-witted humor, but yet you also know how to tug at the heart strings when you feel a moment with your empath abilities :)
I think we can all agree Ally Sheedy was so much cooler before the makeover.
She's still getting through a bottle of Head & Shoulders before we go on any dates though
Not
In reality a makeover wouldn't change her style .
@@bryanobrien2726 Yeah, it's just paint. Changes nothing. From one who knows.
I was a theater manager when this movie came out and I was one of those strict managers. Children are not allowed into Rated R movies without a parent or legal guardian. We previewed this the night before it opened. I then had a meeting with my staff and made up a sign for the boxoffice window. I decided that any age should see this regardless of MPAA restrictions. I still believe that. 🍿
Gee, thanks. You're the reason the kids in my middle school class wouldn't stfu about it.
This movie came out when I was a sophomore in highschool in the 80s, funny how timeless it is almost 40 years later... don't forget about the movie "Sixteen Candles" which featured Michael Anthony Hall and Molly Ringwald a couple of years before this...
Best reaction to this movie I’ve seen! Also, after watching this movie for over 30 years, it’s the first time I realized that Allie’s character had two different types of bread.
I find that movie amazing in that it basically takes place in one room, yet it's great from beginning to end. The writing was spot on.
I need your laughter to be my ringtone lol. Love it. This movie is an absolute classic!!!!!!!
I remember seeing this at the movies. The good old days. Thanks for sharing. A true classic.
I graduated during the 1970's, 1976 to be specific, so I was a little old for this movie, I was already out of college when it was released, but I enjoyed it anyway. My brother actually met Judd Nelson, the Criminal John Bender, a few years later and said he was pretty cool to hang out with. Emilio Estevez, the Wrestler, was Martin Sheen's son and Charlie Sheen's brother, and had a very interesting career, which continues to this day. Anthony Michael Hall, the Nerd, was in quite a few teen movies, "Sixteen Candles" and "Weird Science" for example. Ally Sheedy, the Quiet One, was in "War Games" with Matthew Brodrick and Molly Ringwald, the Popular One, was also in "Sixteen Candles". America in the 1980's was kinda strange, we had Ronald Reagan, an ex-actor, as our President, and his wire, Nancy, was telling everyone to "Just Say No", to everything, including Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll. So we rebelled, naturally. And you get John Hughes movies.
Loved the '80s; a veritable multimedia renaissance going on, the war was over, gas was cheap, economy rebounding, I was out of the Army in '80 and lots of recreational contraband around. Race relations were much better, the music was great and we had much greater Freedom of Speech than today.
@@jollyrodgers7272 You've always got the right to say what you want to say. All this PC Crap is just that CRAP. People are LOOKING to be offended. If they are too bad, live with it. You will get over being "offended", people in the past have had to put up with MUCH worse, with no recourse. So my sympathy for those who are "offended" is very low. I wish we still had the cheap gas though. And, also, I enjoy 60's and 70's music more than the 80's, but that is just me.
The Breakfast Club, 1985
Judd Nelson, who played the rebellious John, was 25. Ally Sheedy (Allison) and Emilio Estevez (Andrew) were both 23. At just 17, Molly Ringwald (Claire), and Anthony Michael Hall (Brian) were the youngest members of the central cast.
One Of My All Time Favorite Movies. Glad That Your Showing It
I was in college when this came out and it was in the top 10bof all movies for that era of my life.
Absolutely love your reactions, so full of joy.
John attacks everyone in the library except Allison. The reason being; Claire, Andrew and Brian are conformists while Allison is not. When Andrew tells John to stay away from Claire, John responds with "I'm trying to help her". His goal is to break everyone out of their conformity. The victorious fist pump at the end is his celebration of successfully achieving his goal.
They call themselves The Breakfast Club because they gathered at breakfast time.
As a perpetual outsider in school this movie hits hard. I could relate to a bit of everybody.
I could relate to almost no one. I really have a love/hate thing with 80s movies. There's some fond memories but also stirred up anger. It was an ugly decade.
An added note, Americans, especially around the mid-80's, intimacy was culturally very different than Europe; much more personal and serious for teens especially. A good percentage of teens had no sex until well after high-school, and almost always the pair was deeply in-love regardless. The weight of it is much more serious in USA, or at least it was then.
I remember seeing this in the theater. Always enjoy watching movies with you ✌️
Judd Nelson (Bender) was the oldest actor of the ones playing the students, at the time of filming he was 25. Anthony Michael Hall (Brian) was the youngest at 17.
Hi!. Answering one of your questions, "the breakfast club" was a slang term that teenagers in the 80's used to referred to those that got detention, because it was in the morning.
Most teen films feature actors that are not teenagers, but in their twenties that could pass as 17-19. Judd Nelson was 25 when this move came out (his birthday is in November, he'd turn 26 at that time), Emilio Estevez was 23, Ally Sheedy was 22-23, Molly Ringwald & Anthony Michael Hall were both 17, a true rarely to be actual teenagers, but both were experienced actors; Molly was on the TV series The Facts of Life when she was 11-12 years old, and of course Anthony Michael Hall was in National Lampoon's Vacation when he was 15.
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"..... is another great 80s teen movie centered around high school.
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Such a “cutie” Dawn Marie! I love your “singing voice”! ❤
3:43 _"He's_ not a... student. He's like 100 years _old."_
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I freaking love this movie. I was a combination of Brian, Andrew and Bender. A small, shy nerd in advanced math but also in special education because I have dyslexia. I was on the varsity wrestling squad at 106 lbs and varsity football as the backup strong safety. I hung out with the stoner kids because they were the ones that accepted me and most likely because I had a key to the schools secluded paint shed where they could smoke they stuff. (I had a key because my summer job was to paint the schools)
Weird Science, Lost Boys, Lucas, Dazed and Confused, 3 O'Clock High, T.AP.S., Meatballs, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Class, The Last American Virgin, Seven Minutes In Heaven, Class Act, My Bodyguard, The Crush, Hard Candy, KIDS, Poison Ivy, House Party 1 and 2, Better Off Dead, Valley Girl, The Wackness, Just One of the Guys, Sixteen Candles, School Ties, The Girl Next Door, Empire Records, St. Elmo's Fire, Cruel Intentions, School Daze, The Craft, Clueless, How To Be A Player, Rushmore, Varsity Blues, The Program, Friday Night Lights, Wildcats, Takedown, Vision Quest.....
Funny you noticed the similarity between this movie and Ferris Bueller. It was created by the same director, John Hughes. He was a master at making 1980's films based on teenage or young adult life. As an homage to his hometown of Chicago his movies were almost always set there and most of them contained a school named Shermer. He also used many of the same young cast members that are in this movie in a lot of his others. Among his other films are Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, Home Alone and National Lampoon's Vacation.
Approximate ages of the cast - The Breakfast Club was filmed in 1984 (per Wikipedia)..
22yrs - Ally Sheedy born 1962
22yrs - Emilio Estevez born 1962
16yrs - Molly Ringwald born 1968
16yrs - Anthony Michael Hall born 1968
25yrs - Judd Nelson born 1959
One of your best reactions yet. 80s movies rock...I've seen this at least50 times, and will watch it whenever it's on. Very good acting. That
Emilio Estevez (Athlete) was 23 making Breakfast Club, Judd Nelson (Criminal) was 25, Molly Ringwald (princess) was 17, Ally Sheedy (basketcase) was 23, Anthony Michael Hall (brain) was 17
cool. loved this film back then. still love it today. the 1980's were my coming of age days and the movies and music, hair styles, and fashion are indelibly imprinted on my brain forever. thank you, Dawn, for this little reminder of my yesterday. shoutout from this old, longhaired, hippy dude in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. U.S.A. peace and love. stay cool. see ya on the next. later
When I was in college, I had a professor that would say, "Good morning, breakfast-clubbers!" when he walked into class in the morning. I always thought it was because we were there early.
Dawn I'm glad you are a good sport about the movies you have been watching and not completely offended by everything...you seem like you'd be a lot of fun to hang out with
Shop class (short for workshop) is an industrial arts class that teaches woodworking, car repair, etc..
Tom Hanks played Mr. Rogers in "A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood". The title come from the song Fred Rogers would sing at the beginning of "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood".
I recommend the speech that Mr. Rogers gave to Congress to convince them to fund public television. It's the most moving speech you'll ever hear. (And it was a week after I was born.)
When I was a teenager I was a rare type of person. I got on with everyone. I mostly hung out with the nerdy types because I found them to be the most interesting, but I was never intimidated by popular kids or pretty girls and they accepted me because of that. I was never bullied or excluded from any of the cliques. I was a long-haired weirdo who dressed in black all of the time, but I dated a gorgeous ballerina from a rich family for all four years and she was every bit as confused, scared and insecure as anyone I knew despite how respected she was. Because of that I've participated in so many conversations like the one that these guys had toward the end of this movie. I was an ambassador. It's crazy just how accurate this is. The constant switches between petty squabbling and absolute empathy that occur over the span of that scene are exactly what kids this age are like when they talk honestly with one another.
That’s not rare at all
You must watch A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood now to get the Mr. Rogers reference.
Almost all John Hughes movies (The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Uncle Buck, Home Alone , and National Lampoon's Vacation) films take place in Shermer, Illinois, a fictional suburb of Chicago