Review of The Breakfast Club (1985) by Simeon T — 15 Apr 2016

Very nearly a great movie, prevented from being such only by the crummy ending, which seemed to me to have been written by the studio (did they have to doll up the goth girl to make Emilio Estevez notice her? What was wrong with her before?).

Up until then, its pretty dynamite stuff. It is a dialogue movie set almost entirely in one room. It seems like it was written to be a play but this in no way hurts it as a movie. More than pretty much any film, The Breakfast Club captures the pop-mythical teenage experience, but in a way that doesn't seem fatuous or unreal.

For nearly all of its run time, It is utterly engrossing and often funny. I don't like it as much as I did 11 years ago, but I shouldn't really.