Critics' Picks - Critics' Picks: 'The Breakfast Club' - nytimes.com/video

[lordoftheTV]

I like these movies i still never understood why it was called the breakfast club

[FloSick808]

watched this movie in psychology class and i loved it! now i need to do an essay about it -_______-

[JAHamilton77]

Bender was wearing multiple carrots in his ear long before any rapper did it.

[TheCrazygurl94]

Im in high school myself. this is my favorite movie. among the 80's bunch i mean. In the movie they show things that are very much true. you can't judge people by what you think they're like or only how they dress or act. come of the things that make you different are the things that make you the best of friends.

[MsAlexs2]

I wis my life was like an 80's movie, watching this only makes me cry

one of the best movies ever.

[jayantasodekar]

jrj4u.com

[Badnewz730]

Don't ask me why but I get chills just hearing that final monologue to that song.

I guess it just reminds me of a different time.

[atlasshrugged2u]

Happy 25th Anniversary "Breakfast Club" I graduated in '85 and it was magical for movies, music and pop culrure in general.

R.I.P.the magnificent "John Hughes" who understood kids/teens in the 80's like no other writer/director ever in t.v. history!!

[Neonman78]

This is a terrific movie, but brought down by a horrible ending.

[danathor99]

@Neonman78 Are you thinking about another film here? The ending to The Breakfast Club is one of the most iconic moments. The letter that Brian writes/ reads out, with simple minds playing and Bender doing the classic fist pump at the end, if you think thats a bad ending then you need to get your head checked...

[Neonman78]

@danathor99 Nah, I suppose that ending is pretty good. I meant the resolution of all the characters, that is, them all getting together in relationships (except Brian, who's just left to another 15 years masturbating to his own sexual frustration). I didn't see it necessary for them to become romantically involved, would've been better if they all just remained (secret) friends.

[markrabo]

@Neonman78 I agree, putting Claire with Bender and Andrew with Allison were relationships that seemed like things that might happen over the course of months or even weeks, but not in one day.

[sonicedhoedown1]

@Neonman78 bro the Jershey Shore crew's got nothin on Bender's fist pump at the end of The Breakfast Club

[fivedinners]

uncle buck didnt get a mention=(

[Edam3000]

@fivedinners 'cos the movies mentioned were about high-school kids. I guess I can see that in Uncle Buck; maybe you're right; it should have been mentioned.

[markvergeer]

Now this is highschool all over again. It not only defined American Adolescence but easily translated to other parts of the world like my native The Netherlands.

John Hughes really shaped the movie background of my teens...

[MadScout]

One of the best. RIP John Hughes.

[flowergirl1313]

2nd favorite John Hughes movie after Some Kind of Wonderful