Wednesday, August 9, 2017

The Breakfast Club (1985)

 
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. 
 
Unusual teenage drama staged as a one-room ensemble play; some moments are silly and unnerving (they're teens, after all), but otherwise a quite impressive movie.
 
Halliwell (no star): "Abysmal apologia for loutish teenage behaviour."
 
Maltin**1/2: "A bold experiment in the era of teen raunch movies (written and directed by a man who's made more than his share)...Alternately poignant, predictable, and self-important, but filled with moments of truth and perception."

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