The Breakfast Club

Comedy, Drama

Mary Christian	Brian's Sister
Perry Crawford	Mr. Reynolds
Ron Dean	Mr. Clark
Emilio Estevez	Andrew Clark
Tim Gamble
Judd Nelson	John Bender
Molly Ringwald	Claire Standish
Anthony Michael Hall	Brian Ralph Johnson
Paul Gleason	Principal Richard Vernon
John Kapelos	Carl the Janitor
Ally Sheedy	Allison Reynolds

Director	John Hughes
Producer	John Hughes; Ned Tanen
Writer	John Hughes
Cinematography	Thomas Del Ruth
Musician	Keith Forsey

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 (Sixteen Candles), 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. The DVD release includes production notes, cast and crew bios, widescreen presentation, Dolby sound, closed captioning, optional French and Spanish soundtracks, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh