126. The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy
Synopsis: Five teenagers are subjected to a form of child abuse known as “Saturday detention” where they have to hang out in the nicest library public education has to offer for nine hours and write an essay about…sin? It’s not important. What IS important is that these kids from disparate social groups find common ground thanks(?) to the verbal abuse of John Bender (Judd Nelson), the mischievous chaos of Allison (Ally Sheedy), the desperate politeness of Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), the surprising self-reflection of Andrew (Emilio Estevez), and…Claire (Molly Ringwald) also has opinions sometimes. Also there’s a fun dance montage!
Bechdel-Wallace Pass? Yes
“I have a problem with that freeze frame actually.”
The Episode
We recall The Breakfast Club (1985), a movie where five teens are told to cool it in the form of nine hours of weekend detention. We discuss when to use a period at the end of a sentence, if chicken fingers, strips and tenders are the same thing, and also the movie.