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ninja422

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this movie was great and it is probably one of my favorite movies to quote

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Posted dec 7, 2008 6:35 am pt

Warrior427

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I guess it was alright but the plot is a little messed up I think now there is now way that a princess a nerd and jock or that basket case would just start talking to each other randomly and they definetly wouldnt spill there guts or fall in love...
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I guess it was alright but the plot is a little messed up I think now there is now way that a princess a nerd and jock or that basket case would just start talking to each other randomly and they definetly wouldnt spill there guts or fall in love like thay did just way to out there and unbelivable

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Posted oct 19, 2008 6:55 am pt

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Not a single movie can replace a movie like this showing us the real world and real lives of teens.

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Posted mar 26, 2008 11:50 pm pt

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A cult classic. A movie that defines the 80s teens. Despite I was a 90s/00s teen, it also defined me. I never understood how five persons detained on a cloudy saturday afternoon could keep my seating. Strongly recomended for a cloudy saturday...
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A cult classic. A movie that defines the 80s teens. Despite I was a 90s/00s teen, it also defined me. I never understood how five persons detained on a cloudy saturday afternoon could keep my seating. Strongly recomended for a cloudy saturday afternoon.

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Posted feb 10, 2008 9:24 pm pt

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the 1985 movie is one of the classic of the rat pack. a group of teenages sent into detention on a saturday. we get to see that they all have promblems to and at the end of the day they all bond together.

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Posted nov 1, 2007 1:18 pm pt

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The 1985 cult classic. This movie really hits the high school life dead on, it's struggles, it's laughs, etc. The plot revolves around 5 teenagers (A brain, a jock, a "princess", a basket-case, and a criminal) who are stuck in detention...
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The 1985 cult classic. This movie really hits the high school life dead on, it's struggles, it's laughs, etc. The plot revolves around 5 teenagers (A brain, a jock, a "princess", a basket-case, and a criminal) who are stuck in detention on Saturday for 8 hours and 44 minutes. The five do not get along at the beginning, but as time goes by, they learn about them selves, what happens at home, etc. Acting is great, and music is good. The movie has some nice jokes in there to. The great thing about this movie, is the meaning behind it. A true classic, that will live on forever.

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Posted sep 1, 2007 1:36 am pt

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Truely a great classic from the 80s. Definately worth the time to watch if you like 80s style humor.

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Posted aug 25, 2007 3:30 am pt

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I love this film sooooooo much. I proudly own it. It is a classic '80s movie. It's really entertaining and realistic about high school life. The story is also extremely interesting to follow. Almost everyone has seen this movie, and if you havn't,...
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I love this film sooooooo much. I proudly own it. It is a classic '80s movie. It's really entertaining and realistic about high school life. The story is also extremely interesting to follow. Almost everyone has seen this movie, and if you havn't, you need to!

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Posted jun 29, 2007 7:06 am pt

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Classic. About a bunch of highschool archetypes forced to spend a Saturday afternoon detention together. Great plot bout people's perspectives and ignorance.

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Posted jun 10, 2007 10:28 pm pt

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Its easy to find yourself and your friends in one of the 6 stereotypical teens that are stuck in a saturday detention. A must see for young teens, it gives a good view into what really happens in high school. You can see that for the nerd, getting...
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Its easy to find yourself and your friends in one of the 6 stereotypical teens that are stuck in a saturday detention. A must see for young teens, it gives a good view into what really happens in high school. You can see that for the nerd, getting good grades isn't just because he can, being the big popular football star isn't always as glamorous as it may seem, and sometimes the bully really has more problems than you do. Each teen comes from a different group, and are almost disgusted with one another. They may begin like this, but by the end of their punishment they all share a bond that they won't soon forget. The simple point of this movie is how you can see how easily the fabric of high school social classes can be torn apart. It is a must see for young teens entering high school or for young high schoolers.

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Posted may 22, 2007 1:29 pm pt

• [+] Film Threat
  
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  This could have been an unmitigated disaster, but Hughes' way with the material ensured it a special place in the heart of just about everyone who happened to be in high school while Ronald Reagan was President.

  by Brad Laidman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  78
  Before lapsing into the land of the insipid,... John Hughes actually made a few movies that shined some light on the trials of modern adolescence. The Breakfast Club is one of them.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  75
  From the neon-sign opening titles to the derivative angst of the dialogue, it's a touchstone of '80s pop culture, and a schizophrenic one, too.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  Eminently watchable and consistently entertaining...It has a candor that is unexpected and refreshing in a sea of too-often generic teen-themed films.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  75
  For all its contrivance, it's lively and amusing and occasionally disconcerting in its reproduction of what life was like in the mid-to-late teens.

  by Jay Scott | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  Comes to the comforting conclusion that they're just as alienated, idealistic, and vulnerable as the baby boomers of the 1960s.

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  70
  Their conversations give The Breakfast Club its snap, crackle and pop. And this is that rare movie that could benefit from another half hour of talking time. [15 Feb 1985]

  by Joe Brown | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  Hughes, though he gives the material a sense of fun and achieves several moments of genuine warmth, too often resorts to obvious cliches, stereotypes, and easy answers, and throws in the near-obligatory rock video as well.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  The five young stars would have mixed well even without the fraudulent encounter-group candor towardS which The Breakfast Club forces them. Mr. Hughes, having thought up the characters and simply flung them together, should have left well enough alone.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
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  But all that this encounter-session movie actually does is strip a group of high-school kids down to their most banal longings to be accepted and liked. Its real emblem is that dreary, retro ribbon. [8 Apr 1985, p.123]

  by Pauline Kael | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
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  Does director John Hughes really believe, as he writes here, that 'when you grow up, your heart dies.' It may. But not unless the brain has already started to rot with films like this.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »