Admirable film.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The Breakfast club is a critically acclaimed comedy-drama. As a film about American adolescence (or indeed more broadly the Western world's youth) and attempting to try and understood it, it makes a pretty good fist of it, and uses good fun to ridicule pesky authority figures. It deals with the reaction of teenagers who are put on pedastals, stereotyped, and struggling to keep to established social constructs in the home and in school. It's a counter-cultural piece that says teenagers are all the same underneath and uses teen film formula and clichés for then to produce pathos. Critics will rightly point out that some enjoyable aspects like the dance sequence were not in keeping with where the story had got to, and with a story chiefly focused on one setting the actors were under pressure to produce emotion that came across a little forced occasionally. The stereotype that was created for the character, Bender, was never fully deconstructed so there was an uneven feeling about him by the end. The film has maintained its strength over the decades and this is also down to a generation of millions of adults who look back fondly not just on the film and the youthfulness of the 17 year old Molly Ringwald whom they remember, but on their own emotions during their own time at school. The soundtrack and songs belonging to that time period blend very well with those memories.

Nothing like 90 minutes to psycho analyze the demographics of white teenagers.

The Breakfast ClubAs much as powerful the screenplay is, John Hughes's attempt to install cheesy and petty inputs in characters to attract younger audience wears down the intensity and gravitas that it had created that easily would have helped it enter the major league. His directorial work is appreciative but deserved a better supervision compared to its script. The performance wasn't up to the mark which is the only thing that itches one down the throat in this old classic. The Breakfast Club is a typical teenage movie retold in the most intriguing way that it is almost impossible not to invest in it and be moved by it (no matter how much familiar their tales may sound but the impact doesn't grow shallow at all).

It makes me think and feel.... We may be different on the outside but so similar on the inside... Five kids with different backgrounds but the same generational issues.