Hugh School Classic....

Rating: Null/10 (12 June 2004)

Rating: * * * *
Five students spend nine hours in the school library on Saturday serving detention. All of them are different as night and day: one is a princess busted for ditching class to hit the mall. One is the jock, taking a prank way too far. Another is a kook, making up lies to suit her needs. Still another is the brain, but even smart people do stupid things and finally the criminal, willing to break all the rules without a second thought. By lunch they ripped each other to shreds. But by four o'clock they became the best of friends. They were.The Brat Pack (oops, I mean The Breakfast Club). By the time I had got into junior high in 1987, the Breakfast Club had become a perennial prerequisite for kids in school (much like say Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Surprising well written and acted, John Hughes shows that he has the knack for killer high school films (Sixteen Candles, Weird Science and Ferris Bueller's Day Off) that entertain while being occasionally sentimental and dramatic. Twenty years later it should still be shown to all high schoolers and is a classic in its' genre.