The Breakfast Club Page #3

Synopsis: Beyond being in the same class at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, Brian Johnson and Allison Reynolds have little in common, and with the exception of Claire and Andrew, do not associate with each other in school. In the simplest and in their own terms, Claire is a princess, Andrew an athlete, John a criminal, Brian a brain, and Allison a basket case. But one other thing they do have in common is a nine hour detention in the school library together on Saturday, March 24, 1984, under the direction of Mr. Vernon, supervising from his office across the hall. Each is required to write a minimum one thousand word essay during that time about who they think they are. At the beginning of those nine hours, each, if they were indeed planning on writing that essay, would probably write something close to what the world sees of them, and what they have been brainwashed into believing of themselves. But based on their adventures during that nine
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): John Hughes
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1985
97 min
20,787 Views


He sits.

VERNON:

My office...

Vernon points.

VERNON:

...is right across that hall. Any

monkey business is ill-advised...

He looks around at them.

VERNON:

...any questions?

BENDER:

Yeah...I got a question.

Vernon looks at him suspiciously.

BENDER:

Does Barry Manilow know you raid his

wardrobe?

VERNON:

I'll give you the answer to that

question, Mr. Bender, next Saturday.

Don't mess with the bull young man,

you'll get the horns.

Vernon leaves.

BENDER:

That man...is a brownie hound...

Everyone tries to get comfortable and we hear a loud

snapping sound. Brian turns and looks and it is

Allison, biting her nails.

Bender's eyes widen as he turns to look. Everyone is

looking now. Allison notices them looking at her.

BENDER:

You keep eating your hand and you're

not gonna be hungry for lunch...

Allison spits part of her nail at Bender.

BENDER:

I've seen you before, you know...

We see Vernon look out from his office.

We see Brian playing with his pen.

BRIAN:

(quietly to himself)

Who do I think I am? Who are you?

Who are you?

He attaches the pen to his bottom lip and puts the top

under his upper lip.

BRIAN:

I am a walrus...

Bender looks at him in utter confusion. Brian notices

this, laughs and takes the pen out of his mouth--

embarrassed.

Bender and Brian begin to take their jackets off at the

same time. They both notice this. Brian stops removing

his jacket.

Bender takes his all the way off. Brian rubs his hands

together and pretends to be cold. He pulls his jacket

back on. He turns and looks at Bender who is still

staring at him.

BRIAN:

It's the shits, huh?

Bender glares at him and Brian utters an uncomfortable

laugh.

Bender turns away and crumples up his essay paper. He

throws it at Claire. It misses and goes over Claire's

head.

Andrew and Claire acknowlege it but continue to ignore

Bender.

Bender starts loudly "singing" the musical part of a

song. “Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah...nah, nah, nah...”

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John Hughes

An American filmmaker. Beginning as an author of humorous essays and stories for National Lampoon, he went on to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s. Most of Hughes's work is set in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is best known for his coming-of-age teen comedy films which often combined magic realism with honest depictions of suburban teenage life. more…

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