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The Breakfast Club
is a 1985
American
coming of age
comedy-drama
movie. It was written and directed by
John Hughes
. It is set in a
Chicago
suburb
in 1984. It stars
Emilio Estevez
,
Anthony Michael Hall
,
Judd Nelson
,
Molly Ringwald
and
Ally Sheedy
as
high school
students
. It also stars
Paul Gleason
as their teacher and
John Kapelos
as the
cleaner
of the school. It was released to positive reviews on February 15, 1985.
This movie is about five teenagers who met on Saturday. Somehow they deserved being in detention, but this is not that matters. Each of them is a part of a different high school
clique
. Being
stereotypes
, they all have some kind of problems with their parents, friends or school teachers. They forgot who they really are, because they hide behind masks. Spending Saturday together, they are starting to know each other better and then they realize that first of all each of them is a person. Unfortunately, other people do not see their personalities, they only see stereotypes. This fact makes them tired of life and entangled in thoughts.