The Breakfast Club | |
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Directed by | John Hughes |
Written by | John Hughes |
Produced by | Ned Tanen John Hughes |
Starring | Emilio Estevez Paul Gleason Anthony Michael Hall John Kapelos Judd Nelson Molly Ringwald Ally Sheedy |
Cinematography | Thomas Del Ruth |
Edited by | Dede Allen |
Music by | Keith Forsey |
Production companies | A&M Films Channel Productions |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 97 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1 million |
Box office | $51,525,171[2] |
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American coming of age comedy-drama movie. It was written and directed by John Hughes. It is set in a Chicago suburb in 1984. It stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as high school students. It also stars Paul Gleason as their teacher and John Kapelos as the cleaner of the school. It was released to positive reviews on February 15, 1985.
This movie is about five teenagers who met on Saturday. Somehow they deserved being in detention, but this is not that matters. Each of them is a part of a different high school clique. Being stereotypes, they all have some kind of problems with their parents, friends or school teachers. They forgot who they really are, because they hide behind masks. Spending Saturday together, they are starting to know each other better and then they realize that first of all each of them is a person. Unfortunately, other people do not see their personalities, they only see stereotypes. This fact makes them tired of life and entangled in thoughts.