Definitely one of the best of the eighties.

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2000)

When this movie was made I couldn't even read yet. I watched it for the first time, exactly 15 years after it was made, and I must admit, this movie is great.
I was going to vote for this movie, and I couldn't decide wether I'd give it a 9 or a 10, but I thought that if the vote was based on the first thought that gets to your mind just after you finish watching the movie, I'd have to rate the movie with a 10, because the first thing I said to myself after watching it, was "I liked this movie... I liked it a lot".
Sometimes it's fun for me to see actors when they were pretty young. I am used to see those actors now, in these years, but 15 years ago they looked pretty different.
All the actors and actresses, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall, were great. Each actor, pretty young by that time, gave a very convincent performance.
Not many people participate in this movie, just about 7. And the movie is always developed in the same place, the same atmosphere, but the dialogs and the discussions are awesome.
For a teenager, like me, watching this movie would be really good, because I believe you can learn something from it. And even if you are an adult, you can also learn something from it.
All those kids were in trouble for different reasons. And all had problems with their families. One of the kid's father wanted him to be number one at everything. Other father wanted his boy to get the best grades, and wont accept a bad grade. Other father gives his daughter everything. other gives his son nothing, oh, right, he gave him a pack of cigarettes for Christmas.
Kids in different social positions, get to spend a whole Saturday locked up at school. They get to know each other pretty well, after a lot of tears dropped and stories told. But along with all that, there were many laughs and everybody got out pretty happy.
And the essay they were supposed to write, which Anthony M. Hall wrote all by himself, was excellent. I simply loved it. He described everyone of those kids with just 1 simple word: An athlete, a brain, a basket case, a princess and a criminal.
This movie is really worth watching, I enjoyed it a lot and rated it with the highest rating possible.