they couldn't be any more different....and they couldn't be any more the same.

Rating: 8/10 (15 April 2020)

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film written and directed by John Hughes. Right from the beginning intro, David Bowies quote sets the tone and foundation for what this film is all about. Five high school students meet on an early Saturday morning for detention, where they will spend the next nine hours together in the school library. Nine hours, and they are told to write an essay on who they think they are, no less then 1,000 words. This group starts the day as individuals, but by the end of the day, they become known as a group, "The Breakfast Club", as within the nine hours, they start out seeing how different they are, but by four o' clock, they are shocked to find out the similarities they have in common. They start off as bickering enemies, but the kid dubbed 'The Criminal' ( Judd Nelson) manages to mellow most of them out with his supply of weed that he keeps in his locker. It's still not enough to end the tension between this group. It will take plenty of talking, plenty of debates, and plenty of argument and judgment for these kids to really get to know one another. Once they get to the bottom of what's really making them hurt on the inside, they begin to see their root of the problem is stemming from the same root. Frustrations, angst, and sometimes full blasts of anger come to a head between them all, but through the fire, they end up walking out of the school hand in hand....almost hand in hand. The Breakfast Club concentrates on emotional depth rather then plot. It will not bore you, however. 8 out of 10 jobs, and fantastic efforts from a well missed and respected writer /director John Hughes.