One of the best and memorable coming of ages films of the 1980's.

Rating: 9/10 (17 November 2007)

Five students are in detention on a Saturday for different reasons:Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez), who's a football jock. Brain Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall), who's grade A nerd. John Bender (Judd Nelson), who's a metal head and a trouble maker. Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald), who's a popular student. Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy), who's a oddball. This detention for this unusual day on the weekend, which the Principal Richard Vernon (The late Paul Gleason) wants the students to write an essay to explain themselves why they are here and write a little about themselves. These five students hangs out each of them with a different crowd and they barely know each other expect probably seeing each other in the hall, every once in a while. Since they are there from 7am to 5pm to write this essay. These teenagers hate each other guts at first but they started to talk to each other. They become loose and they talk about their personal feelings about home, life, friendship and why they are there on detention on a Saturday.
Written and Directed by John Hughes (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, She's Having a Baby, Uncle Buck) made an strong dramatic comedy that is also coming of age film. Hughes is certainly clever with his dialogue and his character that could be heavy at times. But his characters are fascinating, funny, sad, truthful and real.
The latest DVD from Universal is great. DVD has an good anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an fine DTS 5.1 Surround Sound (Also in Dolby Digital 5.1). DVD has an documentary with interviews with the cast, the crew and fans of the feature. DVD also includes an lively audio commentary by fan of the film Jason Hillhouse and actors:Nelson & Hall. This film was an box office success, it was well received by the critics, the audiences loved it (especially preteen and teenagers) and it has an fairly good soundtrack as well. This movie went on over the years to be a classic picture of the 1980's and it's still pretty up there to being a coming of age film. This is certainly one of Hughes best films (also "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" is other instant comedy classic from the director). This is the movie not to be missed. (****/*****).