Grossing $45,875,171 domestically and $51,525,171 worldwide, the film was a box office success, given its $1 million budget. ===Accolades=== Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason and Ally Sheedy all won a Silver Bucket of Excellence Award at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards in 2005. ==Legacy== The Breakfast Club has been called the quintessential 1980s film.
Filming took place at Maine North High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, which had closed in 1981.
The film was digitally remastered and was re-screened in 430 theaters in celebration of its 30th anniversary in 2015. ==Plot== On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at the fictional Shermer High School report at 7:00 a.m.
Clark ==Production== ===Casting=== Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall both starred in Hughes's 1984 film Sixteen Candles.
Hughes opted for an insular, largely one-room set and wrote about high school students, who would be played by younger actors. Principal photography began on March 28, 1984, and ended in May.
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes.
It stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as teenagers from different high school cliques who spend a Saturday in detention with their authoritarian assistant principal (Paul Gleason). The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 7, 1985.
Universal Pictures released it in cinemas in the United States on February 15, 1985.
Bender is the only one who stands up to Vernon. ==Release== The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 7, 1985.
Universal Pictures released the film in cinemas on February 15, 1985, in the United States. ===Home media=== The Breakfast Club was first released on VHS and LaserDisc. In 2003, the film was released on DVD as part of the "High School Reunion Collection".
Otherwise known as individual liberty". ===Box office=== In February 1985, the film debuted at No.
In 2018, The New Yorker published an article written by Ringwald in which she critiqued Hughes' films "in the Age of #MeToo". ==Soundtrack== The film's soundtrack, The Breakfast Club (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), was produced by British pop musician Keith Forsey and released on February 19, 1985 by A&M Records.
The song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" performed by Scottish rock band Simple Minds was released on February 20, 1985 in the United States and on April 8, 1985 in the United Kingdom as a single and reached No.
In a June 25, 1985 review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "D−" and said that it has "utterly negligible" songs, and he commended Simple Minds for trying to distance themselves from their song, "Don't You (Forget About Me)", best known for being played during the film's opening and closing credits.
The same setting was used for interior scenes of Hughes's 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which featured exterior shots from nearby Glenbrook North High School.
This, on the other hand, should not suggest they have anything intelligent to say." Among retrospective reviews, James Berardinelli wrote in 1998: "Few will argue that The Breakfast Club is a great film, but it has a candor that is unexpected and refreshing in a sea of too-often generic teen-themed films.
At one point, Hughes was disappointed in Nelson because he stayed in character and harassed Ringwald off-camera, with the other actors having to convince Hughes not to fire him. Rick Moranis was originally cast as the janitor but left due to creative differences and was replaced by John Kapelos. ===Filming=== In 1999, Hughes said that his request to direct the film met with resistance and skepticism because he lacked filmmaking experience.
In the 2001 parody film Not Another Teen Movie, Gleason reprised his role as Assistant Principal Vernon in a short scene that parodies The Breakfast Club. In 2005, the film received the Silver Bucket of Excellence Award in honor of its 20th anniversary at the MTV Movie Awards.
Universal Pictures released the film in cinemas on February 15, 1985, in the United States. ===Home media=== The Breakfast Club was first released on VHS and LaserDisc. In 2003, the film was released on DVD as part of the "High School Reunion Collection".
On the Ferris Bueller's Day Off DVD commentary (featured on the 2004 DVD version), Hughes revealed that he shot the two films concurrently to save time and money, and some outtakes of both films feature elements of the film crews working on the other film.
Grossing $45,875,171 domestically and $51,525,171 worldwide, the film was a box office success, given its $1 million budget. ===Accolades=== Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason and Ally Sheedy all won a Silver Bucket of Excellence Award at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards in 2005. ==Legacy== The Breakfast Club has been called the quintessential 1980s film.
In the 2001 parody film Not Another Teen Movie, Gleason reprised his role as Assistant Principal Vernon in a short scene that parodies The Breakfast Club. In 2005, the film received the Silver Bucket of Excellence Award in honor of its 20th anniversary at the MTV Movie Awards.
In 2008, a "Flashback Edition" DVD was released with several special features, including an audio commentary with Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson.
In 2008, Empire magazine ranked it at number 369 on their The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time list.
A 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray was released in 2010, and the same disc was re-released with a DVD and digital copy in 2012 as part of Universal's 100th Anniversary series.
At the 82nd Academy Awards (March 7, 2010), Sheedy, Hall, Ringwald, and Nelson all appeared in a tribute to John Hughes—who had died the prior year—along with other actors who had worked with him, including Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink, Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone.
A 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray was released in 2010, and the same disc was re-released with a DVD and digital copy in 2012 as part of Universal's 100th Anniversary series.
In 2012, Victorious aired their own version of the film, titled 'The Breakfast Bunch'.
It later ranked at number 38 on their 2014 list.
The film was digitally remastered and was re-screened in 430 theaters in celebration of its 30th anniversary in 2015. ==Plot== On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at the fictional Shermer High School report at 7:00 a.m.
On March 10, 2015, the 30th Anniversary Edition was released.
Review aggregator Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 66/100 based on 25 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable reviews". Writing in 2015, P.
The media referred to the film's five main actors as members of a group called the "Brat Pack". In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
This release was digitally remastered and restored from the original 35mm film negatives for better picture quality on DVD, Digital HD and Blu-ray. The Criterion Collection released a special edition 2-disc DVD set and a Blu-ray disc on January 2, 2018.
In 2018, The New Yorker published an article written by Ringwald in which she critiqued Hughes' films "in the Age of #MeToo". ==Soundtrack== The film's soundtrack, The Breakfast Club (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), was produced by British pop musician Keith Forsey and released on February 19, 1985 by A&M Records.
All text is taken from Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License .
Page generated on 2021-08-05