The Breakfast Club

Director: John Hughes

1985 / 97min / DCP

Hughes’s beloved teen comedy-drama introduced audiences to five teenagers who wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out under any other circumstances—an athlete, a brain, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal—stuck together in Saturday detention where, after initial tensions subside, the quintet begin to see past one another’s stereotyped surfaces, and form a common front against school authority. Featuring the “Brat Pack” Dream Team of Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Judd Nelson, as well as a pulsing pop soundtrack that shot Simple Minds’s “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” to the top of the charts.