The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club (1985)
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, and Judd Nelson
Written and Directed by: John Hughes
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Grade: A++

This is not only one of my favorite 80's movies but one of my favorite movies period. The interaction between the cast (which also includes Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall) is brilliant and John Hughes's direction is spot on, as always. The movie is the story about five kids from completely different cliques all thrust together for one day of Saturday detention. There's Andrew (Estevez), the jock, Claire (Ringwald), the princess, Bender (Nelson), the criminal, Allison (Sheedy), the basket case, and Brian (Hall), the brain. As they spend the day getting to know each other (reluctantly in some cases), they realize that what they thought about each other was completely wrong. There is not a lot of "action" in this movie. The real prize (and why it is highly regarded as the epitome of films about teenagers) is the clever dialogue and the way the actors deliver it and portray how truly hard it is to be a teenager in high school.