The Best Movie of the 80's Hand's Down!

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2008)

The king of 1980's family comedy movies John Hughes bring you this coming of age classic from 1985. The movie begins with 5 teenagers who have to spend a fun-filled Saturday in detention in the school library. The character's in this film are all cliché high school types that you can find in every high school in America. There's Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall)-the Nerdy smart guy; The Jock-Andy Clark(Emilio Estavez), the wastoid smart Aleck-John Bender(Judd Nelson), Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald) the rich, stuck up snob, and Allison Reynolds(Ally Sheedy)-the psycho girl with indifference issues. After wasting a good part of the morning goofing off and making a fool out of the intolerant teacher Richard Vernon, who is supposed to be supervising our youngsters, instead he makes them write an essay about who think they are and why their in detention. As the day progresses they learn important lessons about themselves and each other. The major point of this film is that everyone is so busy judging other people by their outward appearances that we don't really know the person underneath the wrapping. This movie dabbles where teenagers fear to tread, in the good old heart of hearts! The actors in this film all play their parts to the hilt, you will think you actually know them and I guarantee you will love them!