Breakfast Club, The

Breakfast Club, The      ASIN B000A3DGEE     Medium Count 1     Medium DVD     Release Date 10/27/2005     Group Glass Frame     Link [+]     UPC 025192830327     EAN 0025192830327     Aspect Ratio 1.85:1     Picture Format Widescreen     DVD Region 1     Running Time 97     Studio Universal Studios Home Entertainment     Theatrical Date 4/29/1985     Audience Rating R (Restricted)     Cast Estevez, Emilio / Nelson, Judd / Ringwald, Molly / Hall, Anthony Michael / Sheedy, Ally / Gleason, Paul     Director Hughes, John     Language English (Original Language) / French (Subtitled) / Spanish (Subtitled)     ISBN 141705882X     Date Imported 11/20/2007     List Price $0.00     Rating 4.54.54.54.54.5     Genre Comedy     Audio Format DTS Surround Sound     Copy Count 1     Tag Hollywood     Creator Hughes, John     IMDb Rating 0      John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes, who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. --Tom Keogh