Teens of the 80's

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2006)

The plot is very simple.Five teenagers have to spend their Saturday in detention.These high school students come from different backgrounds but find out in the end they're not too different from each other.The characters are known from pretty much every teen movie.There is a jock Andy (Emilio Estevez), a prom queen Claire (Molly Ringwald), a nerd Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), a weirdo Allison (Ally Sheedy) and a criminal John (Judd Nelson).All these people do a lot of growing on that one Saturday in detention.Paul Gleason plays the principal Richard Vernon.I was shocked to read from IMDb site today that this great man has passed away.He was a brilliant actor.You can's imagine any other actor doing the role of the principal in this movie.He shone also in Die Hard, a movie I saw for the first time as a 12 year old kid and was blown away by it.In both of the movies he played a similar kind of a character, a tough guy you don't wan't to mess with.Or you'll get in trouble.Paul Gleason will be missed by many.You did a good job. John Hughes directed The Breakfast Club in 1985 and it became a cult favorite.It still works today because it has a good story.Good stories will never die.The time has passed since that.It has been 21 years.The brat back is gone and all the members are all grown now.The fame they had then doesn't exist anymore.But they all got out of detention and life went on.