

The Breakfast Club
They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1M
- Box office
- $51.5M
- Language
- English
- high school
- coming of age
- teen angst
- detention
- teen comedy
- teenage rebellion
- stereotype
- 1980s
- teenager
- hilarious
- assertive
- compassionate
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- TheatricalUA3 May 1986
- PhysicalUA13 Nov 1986
United StatesUS
- PremiereRLos Angeles7 Feb 1985
- TheatricalR15 Feb 1985
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical155 Mar 1985
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM1 Aug 1985
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1428 Jun 1985
- Physical14DVD / VHS 5 Aug 2005
DenmarkDK
- Physical1515 Feb 1985
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1616 Aug 1985
FranceFR
- TheatricalU11 Sept 1985
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12UIP5 Jul 1985
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1311 Sept 1985
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1514 Jun 1985
ItalyIT
- TheatricalVM1427 Sept 1985
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The Breakfast Club was released on 15 February 1985.
Audience reviews
5- S6/10
SierraKiloBravo
6/30/2020
Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/tCnm1BN1iAs The brain, the athlete, the princess, the basket case, and the criminal - yes we’re talking about _The Breakfast Club_. It’s been dubbed as a seminal film of the 1980s and takes a place as an intergenerational classic. _They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high schoo…
- W4/10
Wuchak
9/19/2021
_**Forced, artificial dialogs with eye-rolling character arcs**_ Released in 1985 and written & directed by John Hughes, "The Breakfast Club" is a teen dramedy about five high school students from five different sub-cultures during an all-day detention over the weekend at their suburban Chicago school. Molly Ringwald plays the popular girl, Emilio Estevez the jock, Anthony Michael Hall the Brainiac nerd, Judd Nels…
- R9/10
Rob
6/18/2023
An absolute classic, and no mistake. If you disagree, sorry, you're wrong. John Hughes was an utter genius.
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/20/2025
I'd struggle to recall any other of Judd Nelson's films, but in this he really does shine. He's the obvious recalcitrant amongst five teenage youths who have been dragged into school on a Saturday for some seemingly rather pointless detention. This is manna from heaven for their headmaster "Vernon" (Paul Gleason), who takes pleasure in exercising his gradually dwindling authority over his charges. Whilst he leaves th…
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Margot Maritz
6/8/2025
I absolutely love this film. When I saw that Ster-Kinekor was having a throwback screening, I immediately went to book my tickets to see it on the big screen. I still think The Breakfast Club is an incredible film, and the core message it presents remains deeply important and relevant even today. I love the premise: a group of seemingly random students in detention: the jock, the emo kid, the popular girl, the …
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