And in “I Feel Old” news, today marks thirty years since five teenagers walked into the Shermer High School library for detention! Each of them came from different cliques – the jocks, the popular girls, the outcasts – but by the end of that day, they bonded and united over realizing that even though they are each so different, they all have struggles and trials to overcome.
“The Breakfast Club” was released in February of 1985 and has served as a teenage anthem movie ever since. Many consider it the most popular of John Hughes’s “brat pack” movies and it grossed over $50 million dollars. It sky rocketed the careers of Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall.
I can still remember the first time I saw this movie. And I joined the millions of girls who fell in love with John Bender! This will forever remain one of my top 5 favorite movies, and for good reason. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, do yourself a favor and watch it on Netflix tonight.
Dear Mr. Vernon:
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain. And an athlete. And a basket case. A princess. And a criminal.
Does that answer your question?
Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.
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