thank god for john hughes

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2006)

the older i get the more accurate i realize 'the breakfast club' truly was. the depiction of high school as an evil cess-pool of social hierarchy with a caste system more rigid then colonial India is dead-on. i felt like i knew each one of these characters, and not because of the acting, which was done well, but because of how well writing this movie is. i don't think enough people recognize it for it's insight and wisdom because it deals with issues much more commonly discussed then they were in 1985. today with every adolescents sex/drugs/self-mutilating secret broadcast on four different networks each afternoon, it's hard to make a statement about this issues facing youth.