The Breakfast
Club R
John Hughes capitalized on the teen
scene in this high school comedy. The premise is simple, as a group of
different misfits are placed in detention over a Saturday, and learn about how
alike they are. Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael
Hall and Emilio Estevez are the Brat Pack, or the Breakfast Club. Every teen that grew up with this movie, quoted
lines from it at high school for weeks, if not months! Inspired a cheesy TV
version where they cut out the swearing. The original was just fine with it in,
because kids talk like that. Interesting to note that in the movie all of the
action in this takes places in a library where several students talk about
their lives. They have the basic Hughes stereotypes now bred into generations,
the jock, the princess, the bad boy, the wacko, the nerd, and the depressed person,
and it struck a nerve with the X Gen set who thought their lives were like TV,
the MTV generation that is. It essentially is a teen version of later Six Degrees of Separation, of which that
movie likely was ripping this one off, but far more interesting, as the wacky
characters drive the story, and some of them literally climb walls and shout to
the ceiling. Their catharsis doesn’t come from the appearance of some mythical
charismatic, but from getting the dope out of the nerd’s pants and smoking it. Review by Adam Browne
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