The Breakfast Club

1985 Directed by John Hughes

They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.

Five disparate high school students meet in Saturday detention, and discover they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Anthony Michael Hall Molly Ringwald Emilio Estevez Judd Nelson Ally Sheedy Paul Gleason John Kapelos Ron Dean Perry Crawford Fran Gargano Mary Christian Mercedes Hall Tim Gamble John Hughes

Alternative Titles

Клуб Закуска, Clube dos Cinco, Breakfast Club - Der Frühstücksclub, Der Frühstücksclub, El club de los cinco, 조찬 클럽, O Clube, Клуб Завтрак

drama comedy

98 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by Stacey Bates ★★★★ 6

for years upon years ive always wondered about old peoples fascination with this movie and that shaggy guy with a birdnose and baggy clothes pumping his fist in the air.
i get it now.
Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 3

This rewatch was frustrating and somewhat infuriating.
Not because the film disappointed, no, it's still as funny and perfectly balanced as ever.
It's because, in over 30 years, the problems kids face because of self-centred adults haven't changed the slightest.
Review by rowan ★★★ 1

but they didn't even eat breakfast
Review by Steve G 🐝 ★★★★★ 20

I'm now hereby installing The Breakfast Club on The Romancing The Stone Plan and it will be now watched on a bi-annual basis.
And besides, I really did need to watch it today. Bank Holidays are fucking bollocks.
Here's why I'm putting it on the Plan:-
1) Judd Nelson casually swiping some Post-It Notes as he walks into detention.
2) "Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?"
3) The look Nelson gives Anthony Michael Hall when he tries to take his jacket off at the same time.
4) "I'm in math club!"
5) "No, I don't wear tights! I wear the required uniform."
6) "Screws fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place!"
7) Why is…
Review by 👽hayley👽 ★★★★ 3

im always SO bitter about the makeover claire gives allison she looked so amazing with the goth look <///3
Review by CJ Probst ★★★★½ 10

I always feel a little apprehensive going into older movies that are so universally loved like the very, very popular The Breakfast Club. Films of this type instill in me all manner of preconceived notions because they are so engrained in the pop culture consciousness and as a result, though I have not seen them, I feel as though I already have. Even though this movie was before my time, I felt optimistic that I would most likely enjoy it to some degree but would also somehow be unable to fully embrace it without the luxury of the added nostalgic good will that often comes from seeing these things in one’s youth. It turns out that The Breakfast Club was…

Recent reviews

Review by Sienna Swoyer ★★★

Honestly found it boring. Somehow it’s a memorable film that pretty much everyone knows yet somehow I can’t find it in me to like it. For some reason I have a feeling to justify my dislike for this film even though it’s like any other film set in the 80s/90s about teens due to its popularity. Just wasn’t the movie for me I guess?
Review by french_rat ★★★½

This movie definitely aged, but if I were an 80s teen I would have probably loved it.
Review by sofia monteiro ★★★★½

um classico sessao da tarde
Review by Tyler Harford ★★★★½

Watched on Blu-ray [Criterion]
The Breakfast Club has been in my life for a long time. I’ve never owned it (until now), but felt like it was on TV all the time and usually when I would come across it, I would stop and watch. I’ve seen it now in the three stages of my life — kid, teenage, and now in adulthood. It plays differently in each of the three different stages. When you’re a kid in the early 2000s watching this, the group of five teenagers seem like rockstars. When you’re in high school, you feel like you can relate to them all in some way. But now, as an adult and 35 years removed from the culture of…
Review by Anton Nguyen ★★★★

One of the best teen movies ever made. However, watching it in 2019, it didn't really age well. How is Bender not in jail LMFAO. But the emotions I felt during this movie were raw and real. John Hughes captured being a teenager quite excellently.
Review by Rachel Schoester ★★★½ 1

Adequate movie when you want to watch an 80s rom com or see Molly Ringwald in her peak. Yes.
Review by Alyssa Gaylard ★★★½ 1

another iconic film with Molly Ringwald. Yes.
Review by lou_ser ★★★★

ya’ll who like this movie because of pitch perfect are fake fans
Review by Hari Prasad Satiri ★★★★

You wanna know
What i did to get in here
Nothing
And do have some fun and
know you guys
TBC

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