people can be so tough on popular films

Rating: Null/10 (1 January 2003)

It's funny how one film can polarise people's opinions so distinctly. While I don't proclaim the Breakfast Club to be a masterpiece, it certainly deserves appreciation for its originality. more than that, it raises issues relevant twenty two years ago and still relevant to teenagers today.
Here was a film that presented five students initially presented as stereotypes, but who eventually revealed themselves as so much more. So often films are criticised for not revealing enough about the characters to make you care; that could never be said of the Breakfast Club. The writing is sharp and witty, in most scenes dialogue flowing seamlessly in a way that so many other films fail to achieve.
Twenty two years on, school life hasn't changed that much. kids are still in conflict with their parents, they still have private fears often not obvious to the outside world, and they still worry about their futures and what they will become.
Bullying, drugs, guns, suicide, and sex are all tackled with gusto, issues that are still relevant today and will ensure the Breakfast Club continues to have an important place in cinema history for many years to come.