The Breakfast Club (Archive)
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen
4.6 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today? |
| 0:06.5 | You're not interested in art? |
| 0:07.6 | No. |
| 0:08.1 | Now look, we're going to do this thing. |
| 0:09.4 | We're going to have a conversation. |
| 0:12.7 | Hey, film spotters, Josh here with Adam. |
| 0:15.9 | This weekend, the definitive 80s high school comedy, the Breakfast Club, is back in theaters for its 40th anniversary. |
| 0:23.1 | 40th anniversary, still influential. |
| 0:25.6 | Adam, I think we both got news about a new release, an indie release called Pools that I believe is playing right about now at music box theater. |
| 0:35.4 | Check that for sure. |
| 0:36.2 | I know they had their premiere there not |
| 0:37.6 | too long ago. And they described it as being influenced at Chicago made and set and being |
| 0:42.7 | influenced by John Hughes comedies of the 80s like The Breakfast Club. So yeah, definitely a movie that |
| 0:49.8 | is still affecting films and filmmakers many few decades on here. |
| 0:56.5 | And we wanted to share with you our sacred cow review. |
| 1:01.6 | Now, we did this back for the Breakfast Club's 30th anniversary, which was in 2015. |
| 1:08.7 | That's right. |
| 1:09.2 | And we're not just busting it out for its 40th. It's also timely |
| 1:13.4 | because this weekend, September 7th and on Wednesday, September 10th, commemorating its 40th |
| 1:20.9 | anniversary, there are going to be special theatrical screenings around the country. If I can find |
| 1:26.3 | a link with more details about that, |
| 1:28.3 | we'll post it in the show notes wherever you're listening to the podcast. You can try to find |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

