The Breakfast Club

Jennifer Lind-Westbrook

The film is an extraordinarily well blended mix of humor, heartbreak, and anger as each character displays a pantheon of raw emotions. ( Read More )

Marjorie Baumgarten

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 be dumbed way down, John Hughes actually made a few movies that shined some light on the trials of modern adolescence.The Breakfast Club is one of them. ( Read More )

And yet, the movie is charged with emotions, insights and an overall energy rarely seen in flicks about high school. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

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 truths about themselves and come to new understandings. ( Read More )

Paul Attanasio

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 way its structured to provide its stars with opportunities to show off; with one exception, the fine cast indulges itself with actors turns. ( Read More )