The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American indie teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The film tells the story of five teenagers from different high school cliques who serve a Saturday detention overseen by their authoritarian vice principal.
Plot
On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, report for an all-day detention: socially awkward Brian Johnson, jock Andrew Clark, shy loner Allison Reynolds, popular girl Claire Standish, and rebellious delinquent John Bender. They gather in the school library and meet with their vice principal Richard Vernon, who warns them not to talk or move from their seats and assigns each of them the task of writing a thousand-word essay describing "who you think you are."
More details
| author | John Hughes |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | John Hughes |
| editor | Dede Allen |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | bicker buttock cannabis ceiling child neglect cigar burns cigarette burns complex relationship earring flare gun how to industrial arts kiss letterman jacket listen locked in machismo makeover marijuana neglectful open peer pressure petty assumptions physical abuse popular girl run away scholastic wrestling shermer high school shop shop class skipping school smoke socially awkward steal tough vice principal wrestle write |
| musicBy | Keith Forsey |
| producer | Ned Tanen |
| productionCompany | A&M Films Channel Productions |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | high school independent |