OLD FAVORITES:
The Breakfast Club * * * * (4 out of 5)
Emilio Esteves, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy
Rating: R (though they were stricter back then, nowdays it be PG-13)
Original Relase: Feb 15, 1985
They only met once, but it changed their lives forever....
When five distinct sterotypes are forced to serve time together in the form of Saturday detention you could say none
are pleased... to say the least. The cast is suprisingly familiar to some, Emilo (the jock) played the coach from the
Mighty Duck franchise, Molly Ringwald (the princess) from such classics as Sixteen Candles, Anthony Hall (the dork) now
stars in the USA show, "The Dead Zone." The other two, now lesser known, Ally Sheedy does a wonderful job as the misfit, who
the first half hour refuses to speak, and then only mumbles and pathalogically lies. The cast is rounded off by
Judd Nelson, who plays the criminal of the bunch, who, unlike the others, says what he means and dosen't filter anything,
no matter how graphic. At first the five are resistant of each other, but as the day goes on they learn more about each other
than they ever knew, and found more in common then they ever would have guessed.
The movies is filled with funny bits that show the characters quirks. The misfit, Allison (the one who refuses to talk)
spends the first few minutes drawing a winter landscape and then uses her dandruff on it to appear as snow, in the landmark
moment of the film. In fact whenever I brought up the movie with adults who remembered it, that's the first thing
they all thought off. My other personal favorite was when John (the criminal) was under the table Claire (the princess) was
sitting at and looked up her skirt, to which she responded by slamming her legs together on his head. When the bump of him
hitting the wood table distrubs the principal, who happens to be in the room, they all start banging on the table, to act
as if they did it.
The movie might have been made almost 20 years ago, but it's still a classic. In fact, with all the remakes being made
don't be suprised if it's on the Movie page in the coming months.
