Five high school students, John Bender, Andrew Clark, Claire Standish, Allison Reynolds and Brian Johnson are in detention at school. “The Breakfast Club” classically depicts your cliché 80s kids from the suburbs of America. The Breakfast Club is a great drama/comedy from the late screenwriter, John Hughes and features some of the most popular young actors of the 80s like Eimilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Hall and Ally Sheedy. The film is a great hit of nostalgia for us older viewers.
The Breakfast Club starts off with all the kids being dropped off at school on a Saturday in 1984, with all of them being in detention. As they enter the library where they will spend the 9 hours they realize none of them are alike. There's Claire Standish, a pampered and beautiful girl coming from a rich family, Andrew Clarke, a jock and state champion wrestler, Brian Johnson, a nerd and bookworm, Allison Reynolds an outcast and John Bender a troublemaker and rebel. From then they meet their supervising official, Vice-Principal Richard Vernon where he then tells them not to leave, sleep or …show more content…
Those older viewers of the movie will know what I’m talking about. The setting, the stories, the people and how it was presented were simply amazing. The school setting was great, the tables and the teachers (Richard Vernon), it just gave me that feeling I haven’t had since I was 17. The stories really caught my attention, especially the story of Andrew taping the kid’s butt. It just seems like one of those things people did for fun in the 80s. The presentation was beautiful, if you just had the topic of the movie, “kids in detention talking about their feelings” you would think the movie would be terribly boring. Yet John Hughes managed to show a creative, funny and dramatic way of showing. From the dance scene which just screams 80s to the music played through the film. The nostalgia that it gave me was