Group therapy for the young and pimply

Rating: 10/10 (17 February 2002)

Go teenagers! Boo adults!
This movie is great if you can hack the corny eightiesness that occasionally pops its head up. When I first saw it (in the eighties) I actually thought it would be cool to have group detention on a weekend. Now I have a laugh and think, "god i took myself seriously then". And that is what is great about the film. The issues may not seem deep to adults who have mortgages etc. But there is still something that teenagers (whether in the 80s, 90s or 00s) see of themselves in this movie, that have kept it as a cult classic.
The Breakfast Club joins Grease and a few other late 70s/ early to mid 80s films that many of us in our 20s to 30s can quote line for line...