The Breakfast Club

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Never saw Breakfast Club... it's said to be a good flick...

I still have a crush...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lPbfshzJ9g

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It misses it, but it gets it in ways that impressed even ol' cynical me

But the lunch scene was MY favorite part! :D

I like pie.

that summarized a tiny bit of what adolescence was like (for rich suburbanites) in the 80s.

Some extremely funny moments and memorable lines.

wonder what those guys are up to now....they probably all went on to college.

Never understood the hype with that one.

Bender(?) was telling. Still nothing.

*sigh* got nothin...

and I have never known anyone who has come up with even a remotely decent one.

The David Bowie line at the beginning summed up the issue for all generations: These children that you spit on as they try to change their world are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they are going through. That should be emblazoned on every school in this nation.

It was a great movie. Not a little good. Great. Very few movies of that age still speak to people now in the same way. My daughter and her friends love it as much as I did. It's not the typical "coming of age" film, it's a story about kids realizing they are already of age, and beginning to see what makes them the way they are, and how they can affect that.

Beautiful film. Once in a generation film. The kind that creates a magic beyond its components, beyond its era, beyond any objective explanation.

and so on -- the stereotypes were explored and debunked as the characters honestly admitted their insecurities to each other. And two unconventional romances develop -- the "jock" and the "head case" and the "rich girl" and the "criminal." I loved the soundtrack as well. It was special for the Gen Xers!

My 11th grade daughter had been asking to see it again and I dug up the DVD. Weird timing, eh?

John Candy really saved his ass a couple of times.

I liked Home Alone as a kid which I believe is Hughes movie too, but wouldn't watch it today.

The movie Not Another Teen Movie, the high school featured in the film is John Hughes High School

When John Candy is standing in Steve Martin's home, with his hat in his hands, and smiles and gives it a little "scrunch," it is proof positive that sometimes less is more. When Martin finally realizes there are holes in Candy's story and goes to find him on the subway and they establish eye contact, that's another.

I was not a fan of the full John Hughes "catalog," but Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of those rare films, one that walked right up to the line of "sugary, syrupy, sickly sweet" and knew enough NOT to cross.

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