An Honest Trailer for The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club came out in 1985, so it was not all that memorable to me, but meant a lot to Gen X. I saw it as an oversimplified cast of five student stereotypes who all needed a hug and a wakeup call. They were changed by opening up and interacting with each other on a long detention day, which they never would have done otherwise. That's the sad part. Maybe it did inspire Gen X to reach out to each other and open up about their family problems and desire to fit in somewhere. 

Does The Breakfast Club hold up forty years later? It seems pretty simplistic when you consider the struggles of today's students, who have always existed in a much greater variety. A remake might involve students glued to their phones and avoiding eye contact with each other until they suddenly go viral while still in detention. Screen Junkies takes us back to that one day that school detention was both funny and poignant.