#ThrowBackThursday: ‘The Breakfast Club’

Brianna Coyle Staff Writer

John Hughes’ 1985 film “The Breakfast Club,” plays on just about every type of stereotype that exists in the cliché teen film.

On March 24, 1984, five high school students attend Saturday detention for different reasons. These reasons, however, are a useful plot device meant to help reveal their differences and the hardships that they face in their own personal lives.

They are supposed to remain in the library for eight hours without speaking, sleeping or moving from their seats.

To add to their punishment, they are also ordered to handwrite a 1,000 word essay explaining who they think they are.

To make things more interesting, the set around the characters barely changes. This proves that you don’t need some of the more advanced equipment and resources we have thirty years later to make a great movie. All you really need is a cast of impressively talented actors and a good storyline.

Each character has a chance to tell their own story and by the end of the day, they all start to see things differently and none of them know if their life at school is ever going to be the same.

The best part of the movie is undoubtedly the fact that every character is somehow relatable. According to this film, people will judge you and see you the way they want to see you whether you are the brain, the athlete, the basket case, the princess or the criminal.

Throughout the film, the characters get to know each other and they share their own personal hardships. Oftentimes, people make judgments about someone without even knowing the truth about them.

This 1985 classic starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheed is a must-watch this spring break.