This one really should have been watched and reviewed on March 24th, but it fell on a Tuesday this year, so nothing doing. At least I got it done on a Saturday...
The Breakfast Club. 1985 Universal Pictures.
Starring: Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason
Director: John Hughes
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The well known story of the brain, the athlete, the basket case, the princess, the criminal, and the hardass principal who has to watch over them one Saturday at Shermer High. Over the course of their nine hours in the library, they're ordered by Principal Vernon (Gleason) to write a thousand word essay about who they "think they are", but for Andrew Clark (Estevez), Claire Standish (Ringwald), John Bender (Nelson), Allison Reynolds (Sheedy), and Brian Johnson (Hall), five totally different kids, that time is one of self-discovery and revelation once the five of them get over their initial hostility towards one another.
Highly, highly, highly recommended. Oh, and that essay was much less than Vernon's assigned limit, but you already knew that.
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I use a clip from the film (the "eat my shorts" and aftermath) in a training I lead called "Avoiding Power Struggles." Obviously, Vernon's approach to conflict resolution is held up as an example of what NOT to do if one is trying to de-escalate the situation! Breakfast Club is a minor masterpiece, highly entertaining and informative at the same time.
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