If You haven't seen the Breakfast Club, then you've been living in a cave...

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2006)

It's Saturday. The coveted weekend has arrived, but five High School teenagers find themselves not at home, at the mall, or even with their friends. Eachof these individuals has done some act, or committed some crime to receive the punishment of an eight-hour detention at Sherman High.Frictions develop between these teenagers who are wildly different and stereotyped as a jock, a princess, a basket case, a brain, and a criminal.This movie is rated R for a reason kiddos. The comments, (mostly made by John Bender) could make anyone watching more than a little uncomfortable. But that's the beauty of the movie; it goes beyond the stereotypes, beyond the initial small talk about school affairs and parties. The language is crude, but it wouldn't fit if it were any other way.Eventually, all five of these Teenagers confront issues such a school violence, pressure, their family lives, parents, and sex. With such different personalities, groups of friends, lives and problems, it's hard to believe that somehow, they find a way to have something in common, and become "The Breakfast Club"...