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| The Breakfast Club [1985] | ![The Breakfast Club [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GKEQ8490L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Hughes
Actors: Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (25 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5248
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 94 minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582064209
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Release Date: September 12, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: 1985
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Amazon.co.uk Review
John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes (iSixteen Candles/i), who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. --iTom Keogh/i
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 Getting into the teenage mind is spot on by Hughes August 20, 2008
In one of John Hughes' most critically acclaimed films, 5 teenagers are in detention on a Saturday and are forced to interact under the watchful eye of Principal Vernon.br /br /After seeing Ferris Bueller's day Off and hearing friends discuss this 1985 drama, I was very eager to give it a watch, and was spoilt in one, if not the, best teenage dramas ever made.br /br /Estevez, Hall, Nelson, Ringwald and Sheedy are today big stars in Hollywood and it's fair to say that this film pushed them towards that status in a marvellous display of teenage emotions and antics in a great enjoyable and interesting drama.br /br /John Hughes has done it again with sharp writing, jokes and a great character driven plot that justifies the ideology of how parents can have bad effects on children. br /br /And this ideology of being brought up is very interesting to watch, and is portrayed well by all actors, and how the characters are all effected in different ways by their parents attitudes towards them.br /br /Though not designed to be funny, there are a few quirks in the plot that adds a delightful depth to the narrative and keeps the interest alive, and an ideology of what detention is like, and how it can affect your own mood.br /br /Though taking a while to get into, once the characters start interacting more does the plot really come together and capture the true essence of what goes on inside a teenage mind.br /br /Having an open question to the story will keep you watching to the very end, why is everyone in detention on a Saturday? This technique is well used and the final scenes are very dramatic and are worth hanging on for.br /br /The Breakfast Club is a sharply written, intense and intriguing drama that questions the whole concept of how children and teenagers should be raised. Hughes has brought this ideology to a dramatic light to create one of the best teenage dramas ever, not over doing it with unnecessary jokes and focusing on the characters and heir personalities which makes it an essential watch. br /br /9/10br /
Awesome.... April 14, 2008
This is an amazing movie....i finally managed to get my then partner to watch it whilst lying in bed one evening, he didn't look all that impressed with the box, anyhooooo....we sat and watched and i ended up telling him to be quiet or he would wake our newborn baby in the crib next to our bed up with his laughter. He had tears running down his face with laughter, and i couldn't watch the dvd for watching him.....This is a must see movie....totally awesome!!! Bring back the eighties i say....songs were better and movies were fab!br /br /Chelsea xxxbr /br /br /
AMAZINGNESS March 27, 2008
I love love love love this movie it's sooooooooo good. I wasn't alive when it came out but i saw it last year on itv2 or something like that and I thought it was really really good. Although it's in a high school about teenagers it is no way like the stereotypical drivel that all the modern day high school films are like. This is something else amazing. The 80s brat pack films are sooooooo much better than my generation's high school films (though there are exceptions like bring it on and 10 things and shes the man) i recommend this i am 17 and appreciate it!
 Unpalatable fare February 28, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was grossly disappointed with this film which I know has gathered many admirers during it's twenty-odd year life time. My main criticism is that it just presents five stereo-typed characters,they are all too symbolic to ever appear real, and does nothing to develop them. It's as if they all have signs hanging around their neck; 'Bad Boy' 'Goody goody girl' 'Nerd' 'Weirdo' and 'Sports boy.' Fair enough, the film needs characters but the film never reveals anything more about them than first impressions suggest. For example, the bad boy (Bender) tells us that he actually comes from a 'bad' family which is exactly what we expect. Alas he's a bone-fide bad boy, bred for the role it seems. Which just reinforces our prejucies; bad behaviour results from a homelife of poverty, ignorance and violence. I was hoping Bender would tell us that in fact his parents were both lawyers, that he had rebelled against his privileged upbringing so that he could be accepted by his peers. Also The 'goody goody' girl is too good, the weirdo is too wierd and equally the nerd to too nerdish to be anything like a real person. Nothing they say or do alters that image. Secondly, the film has a claustrophobic feel, the five students are locked in a building with a teacher who threatens to go over the edge with stress. The result is a series of long scenes that tend to test the patience. To break this monotony the makers introduce scenes such as the one where the students dance to loud music (when they are supposed to be seated at a desk writing an essay). All films stretch credibility but this just seems dishonest, plainly some of the scenes in the film could never have happpened. It was all over for me after twenty minutes after the bright start and witty dialogue lapsed. I was looking at my watch frequently after this and it seemed a long, long time to the end. I felt as though I had been in detention myself at the end of it.
 Great film, average DVD November 12, 2007
Would have given this 5 stars as it's obviously a great film, and one of my all-time favourites. However, after waiting an age for it to appear on DVD, I was a bit disappointed that there are no extras, not even a John Hughes commentary. Very shoddy from Universal considering the classic status of this film - maybe they have a 2-disk special in the pipeline? Buy it cheap somewhere if you can - but like I said, not a great deal of thought or effort seems to have gone into this DVD release.
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