Five Reasons To Watch The Breakfast Club

1. It's directed by the late, great John Hughes, whose other films include Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
2. John Hughes also wrote the screenplay... in just two days!
3. It's about "five total strangers, with nothing in common, meeting for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse".
4. It has a great "Brat Pack" cast (Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy).
5. It was ranked number 1 on Entertainment Weekly's list of The 50 Best High School Movies.

Punk'd

When pranks go wrong (possible SPOILERS within):
• A humiliating, pig's blood-themed prank played on Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) had deadly consequences for the students at the Bates High School prom in Carrie.
• High school jock Andrew Clark's (Emilio Estevez) prank involving tape and Larry Lester's "buns" not only left his victim with less hair... and skin; it also landed Andrew in Saturday detention in The Breakfast Club.
• A prank-filled weekend at Muffy St. John's (Deborah Foreman) parents' secluded island home turned deadly for a group of college friends in April Fool's Day... or did it?
• A group of friends found themselves facing an unexpected moral dilemma when a practical joke intended to humiliate bully George Tooney (Josh Peck) went horribly wrong in Mean Creek.

Film Poster Comparisons

Film posters that reference, parody or borrow from other films:

The tagline A Different Set Of Jaws, used on this poster for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, was a reference to Jaws which was released in the same year.

This Fanboys poster is a parody of the poster for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, with a Darth Vader helmet replacing Steve Carell's head.

This poster for American Teen is almost identical to The Breakfast Club poster, highlighting the similarities between the documentary and the film.

Get Your Geek On

Geektastic characters from film and TV:
• The Geek aka Farmer Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) not only bagged the prom queen but also Samantha Baker’s (Molly Ringwald) underpants in Sixteen Candles. Anthony Michael Hall also played Brian Johnson in The Breakfast Club and Gary Wallace in Weird Science, making him the geek of choice in 80s teen films.
• Augie Farks (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) was a Live Action Role-Play loving geek in Role Models. Christopher Mintz-Plasse also played über-geek Fogell aka McLovin in Superbad.
• Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) was a shy computer geek, turned powerful witch in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, later shedding her geeky persona (as well as Warren’s skin!) as Dark Willow. Alyson Hannigan also played band geek Michelle Flaherty in the American Pie films.
• Paul Pfeiffer (Josh Saviano) was Kevin Arnold's (Fred Savage) spectacle wearing, allergy suffering best friend in The Wonder Years. Internet rumours that Josh Saviano grew up to be shock rocker Marilyn Manson were (unfortunately) untrue.
• Star Wars fan Sam Weir (John Francis Daley), "comic genius" Neal Schweiber (Samm Levine), and Dallas fanatic Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) were the socially challenged geeks of the title in Freaks and Geeks.

24 Hours

Three films set during one day:

The Breakfast Club is about five high school students (a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal) who are forced to spend a Saturday together in detention.

Dazed and Confused follows a group of high school students and incoming freshman on the last day of school in May 1976.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is about a high school senior who fakes an illness so he can skip school and spend the day in Chicago with his girlfriend and his best friend.