Review of The Breakfast Club (1985) by Jordan K — 31 Dec 2014
The Breakfast Club is a vitally iconic film of the 1980s and one of the decade's best, giving angsty teens just one more free voice in the world as 5 different personalities share their unpleasing out of school lives.
5 high school students (a beauty queen, a jock, a nerd, a basket case, and a rule bending bad boy) are stuck on a weekend detention, where they avoid their strict principal and attempt to have fun as much as they can, eventually digging deeper into sharing at home issues and pressure.
The Breakfast Club is one of John Hughes' classics in the only decade he was still great in. The synopsis could have easily led to disaster and filler but the movie masters what it does, and legitimately leaves you interested in these cliched characters we've all seen before - that takes skill. It stills holds a rapid fanbase today, although the film is noticably dated with its signature soundtrack blaring every now and then, but the film knows how to appeal to anyone when designated for teens. Breakfast Club is brilliant and is extremely well done.
This review of The Breakfast Club (1985) was written by Jordan K on 31 Dec 2014.
The Breakfast Club has generally received very positive reviews.
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