The Breakfast Club

Teenage architypes all go to school on Saturday. The nobs. A teacher tells them to do an essay. They have a bit of a dance, take drugs, have a nice chat and then, presumably, hold down the cool goth girl to put square make-up on her. Then they all get off with each other apart from the geeky one and go home. Essay isn’t done properly, so you’d imagine they have to come back next week or they’ll never learn.

Trivia

Despite being called ‘The Breakfast Club’, at no point does anyone have breakfast which is nutritionally irresponsible as it’s the most important meal of the day

Rick Astley was unknown until he provided the classic ‘Remember Me, You Knobbers,’ for the final scene

Molly Ringwold, who plays Bender, was, at the time, twelfth in line to the British throne

In 1999 Emilio Estevez changed his name to Martin Sheen and became President of the United States

Bloopers

Andrew McCarthy is in the opening few scenes before he realised this wasn’t one of his films.

Quotes

“Got any Ricicles? What about Coco Pops?”

Details

Full Name: The Breakfast Club

Duration: 97 minutes

Release: 1985

Extra bacon: Yes please.

IMDB Link

Starring

Emilio Estevez

Judd Nelson

Molly Ringwold

Rob Lowe (probably? I haven’t checked, but it sounds right)

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