The Breakfast Club
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2015
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Since The Breakfast Club just celebrated its 30th anniversary, it seemed like a good excuse to take another look at this seminal film. We all enjoyed it as kids, continued to appreciate it as we got older, and were anxious to discuss why it remains so relevant when so many other movies from this era feel unbelievably dated.
Topics include: the opening David Bowie quote and how it sort of sums up John Hughes' approach to telling stories about teenagers, the original plan to check in on these characters every ten years or so and why that never came to pass, alternate casting choices, Chris' one issue with Principal Vernon, a surprisingly spirited debate about what happens after Andy smokes pot, the incredible "group therapy" scene, the pros and cons of Allison's makeover, and much much more!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember the Breakfast Club? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.5 | And today we're revisiting the Breakfast Club. |
| 0:53.3 | Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Breakfast Club. The premise of the Breakfast Club is deceptively simple. |
| 0:56.7 | Five high school students from different clicks are forced to spend a Saturday together in detention. |
| 1:01.5 | Viewers can probably see the resolution coming from a mile away. |
| 1:05.1 | Spoiler alert, they find out they're not so different after all. |
| 1:08.1 | But it's the way that writer-director John Hughes deftly maneuvers us from |
| 1:11.5 | point A to point B that establishes this film as a modern classic. Although it was originally |
| 1:16.9 | intended to be his directorial debut, hence the small cast and single location, 16 candles wound |
| 1:22.9 | up moving forward first. And even after the success of that film, there were still some investors who |
| 1:28.3 | felt Hughes was too inexperienced to be trusted with helming the Breakfast Club. Ultimately, |
| 1:33.4 | the film's low $1 million budget helped minimize the risk and alleviate these concerns. Even before |
| 1:39.1 | cameras started rolling, the hope was that this project could kick off a franchise. Hughes envisioned |
| 1:44.0 | several sequels that would check in on these characters every 10 years or so. There were rolling. The hope was that this project could kick off a franchise. Hughes envisioned several |
| 1:44.4 | sequels that would check in on these characters every 10 years or so. There are several |
| 1:48.5 | reasons this plan did not come to fruition, which we'll touch on later. And even though that |
| 1:52.7 | scenario presents some interesting possibilities, it's hard to imagine a more fitting |
| 1:56.7 | conclusion than the one we get here. There's a certain poignancy in being left to imagine what |
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