![]() “The Breakfast Club” sidestepped all the clichés of the teensploitation movie - no homecoming dance, no keg party, no nudity, no football game. It’s the most significant teen movie that feels like it was made by a teenager. “Clueless,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Election,” “Metropolitan” and “Rushmore” are all more aesthetically distinctive and sociologically precise teen movies, but “The Breakfast Club” comes by its iconic status honestly. Left to their own devices, the kids move beyond an initial hostility to work through their anxieties with frankness and mutual recognition. Putting aside questions of quality, is there any high school movie more seminal than John Hughes’ 1985 pop-culture phenomenon?Įlemental in its approach, with one primary location and very little action, the film strands five archetypal teenagers - played by Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy - in a high school library for an all-day detention session. ![]() “The Breakfast Club” is an unorthodox choice for the highbrow cinema canon, but its release as a Criterion Collection Blu-ray this week shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. ![]()
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