The Breakfast Club

  • 1986


MOVIE IS monumental rewarding definitive dramatic enduring
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Positive Reviews 27
Negative reviews 2
Average Rating 4.3/5
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4.5
The film is an extraordinarily well blended mix of humor, heartbreak, and anger as each character displays a pantheon of raw emotions. Culturess
4.0
Before lapsing into the land of the insipid, where the reigning presumption is that in order to make films which speak to young people everything must .. Austin Chronicle
1.0
The same things that provide a play with its condensation make the film no more than an exercise.Whats worst about The Breakfast Club, though, is the ..
4.5
And yet, the movie is charged with emotions, insights and an overall energy rarely seen in flicks about high school. Collider
3.8
The Breakfast Club begins with an old dramatic standby.You isolate a group of people in a room, you have them talk, and eventually they exchange truth .. Rogerebert
5.0
As he proved in the far funnier and livelier Sixteen Candles, Hughes has a wonderful knack for communicating the feelings of teenagers, as well as an .. Ny Daily News
4.0
No wonder so many kids look baffled when adults babble on about the sunny side of adolescence as a blooming season. Spirituality And Practice
3.8
Director writer Hughes, though he gives the material a sense of fun and achieves several moments of genuine warmth, too often resorts to obvious clich .. Tv Guide
2.5
You hear nothing you havent heard before.But you know that for them it is happening for the first time, and they deserve compassion. News Day
5.0
Though the films fashion sense is dated, its urge to tear down social paradigms still echoes in current hits such as The Hunger Games, Divergent and T .. News Day
5.0
Yet, its hard to begrudge Hughes this narrative conceit, since it gives his teen characters something over which they can bond and with which the film .. Q Network
4.5
They may end up torn and scarred, but I imagine only two of the characters here ended up changing their personal lives, and made it through with a muc .. Cinema Crazed
4.0
Good and bad, its still the definitive 80s teen movie and, to paraphrase Simple Minds dont you forget about it. Empire
4.0
What makes this film still stand out today is the deft way it explores teenage relationships with the edge of cruelty that has come to dominate the ge .. Eye For Film
5.0
The performances by the young cast, culminating in an exuberant pot smoking session, followed by a genuinely touching denouement, is classic stuff. Bbc
3.8
In The Breakfast Club, Hughes has created a surprisingly enduring motion picture that is still effective 13 years after its theatrical debut. ReelViews
1.0
Sheedys performance as a hysterical loner is overwrought and seemingly amateurish. Hollywood Reporter
4.5
In the 1980s writer director John Hughes reinvented the teen genre. Coles Mithey
5.0
The Breakfast Club could have been a theater play with its simplicity and character study.Its nothing too complex, and sure it falls into cliche a few .. 7M Pictures
4.5
Hughes once again sensationally captures the feel of adolescent rebellion and nonconformity with both timeless severity and laugh out loud dialogue.
5.0
Its simply a marvel of a movie that still never fail to stuns to this very day. Star Burst Magazine
4.0
Even better is the monologue Bender delivers imagining what life is like in Brians house. Larsen On Film
5.0
Its without any doubts one of the best high school film ever made.Its extremely insightful, and pure fun all the way. Montreal Film Journal
5.0
The reason is the five terrific young actors, who bring more conviction to these parts than they perhaps deserve. News Week
4.5
All told, its several hours worth of bonus material, and very little of it is filler. Under The Radar Mag
5.0
Each Tuesday, Michael Booth uncovers a movie gem for rewarding family entertainment. Denver Post
4.5
The late John Hughes finest hour (he didnt have many, despite a prolific output), The Breakfast Club was the best of the so called Brat Pack features .. Film Frenzy
4.5
Its an exceptional film that has not suffered damage over the years. It feels as fresh as it felt decades ago. .
4.5
understands adolescents as well as anyone who has ever made movies about them, and he has a fluent way with young actors. In this picture, his dramati .. OutWeek
4.5
Through the characters stereotypes, John Hughes makes us look at how similar we are in our differences. Horror Queers Podcast



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