John Hughes' Golden Age - Breakfast Club a solid warm up to his greatest film one year later, "Ferris Bueller..."
Hughes didn't portray teens with the usual shallow Hollywood treatment.
'The Breakfast Club' strikes a chord with a wide audience. It's not Shakespeare, nonetheless, themes of individual search for self realization, self-esteem, pressure of achievement, class stigmas, bullying, peer pressure, authority rebellion, social rebellion, contradictions of adult behavior and teen behavior, fear of being like one's parents, and the general adolescent challenges of growing up all touched upon.
Add in the need for acceptance by parents and peers, random confusion about everything, and mix with impulsive venting exhibited in various forms, and the Breakfast Club is inevitable.
Adolescence is never easy. Sometimes seems no one understands. Everything is magnified 10X, especially angst, trauma and drama.
A lot of territory covered in 92 minutes.
This is a must-see film and along with Ferris and Home Alone...one of Hughes' best films in his Golden Era period of the 1980s.
👍👍
Hughes didn't portray teens with the usual shallow Hollywood treatment.
'The Breakfast Club' strikes a chord with a wide audience. It's not Shakespeare, nonetheless, themes of individual search for self realization, self-esteem, pressure of achievement, class stigmas, bullying, peer pressure, authority rebellion, social rebellion, contradictions of adult behavior and teen behavior, fear of being like one's parents, and the general adolescent challenges of growing up all touched upon.
Add in the need for acceptance by parents and peers, random confusion about everything, and mix with impulsive venting exhibited in various forms, and the Breakfast Club is inevitable.
Adolescence is never easy. Sometimes seems no one understands. Everything is magnified 10X, especially angst, trauma and drama.
A lot of territory covered in 92 minutes.
This is a must-see film and along with Ferris and Home Alone...one of Hughes' best films in his Golden Era period of the 1980s.
👍👍