The Breakfast Club

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Videos & Photos

  • Trailer for The Breakfast Club 30th Anniversary Edition
  • Clip: 30 Minutes for Lunch
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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

John Hughes

Producer:

Gil Friesen, John Hughes, Michelle Manning

Writer:

John Hughes

Release Date:

Feb 15, 1985

Runtime:

1hr 37m

Synopsis

Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Cast

  • Emilio Estevez
  • Paul Gleason
  • Anthony Michael Hall
  • John Kapelos
  • Judd Nelson
  • Molly Ringwald
  • Ally Sheedy
  • Perry Crawford
  • Mary Christian
  • Ron Dean

Did You Know?

Trivia

  • A prom queen election poster contains the name of Michelle Manning, who co-produced the film.
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Goofs

  • The position of the chair after Bender takes the screw from the door.
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Quotes

    • [Vernon catches Bender playing basketball in the gym]
    • Bender: Don't you want to hear my excuse?
    • Richard Vernon: Out.
    • Bender: I'm thinkin' of tryin' out for a scholarship.
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Based on 11 Critics
8.8

USER SCORE (330)

Universal acclaim based on 330 Reviews
75

Eminently watchable and consistently entertaining...It has a candor that is unexpected and refreshing in a sea of too-often generic teen-themed films.

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Metacritic review by James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
75

For all its contrivance, it's lively and amusing and occasionally disconcerting in its reproduction of what life was like in the mid-to-late teens.

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Metacritic review by Jay Scott
Jay Scott
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
80

This could have been an unmitigated disaster, but Hughes' way with the material ensured it a special place in the heart of just about everyone who happened to be in high school while Ronald Reagan was President.

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Metacritic review by Brad Laidman
Brad Laidman
Film Threat
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