The Breakfast Club is a collection of high school students who attend a Saturday detention for each of their indiscretions. The movie introduces us to the characters as the stereotypes that each ...

John Hughes died of a heart attack in 2009. AP Photo. When speaking to Fields about “The Breakfast Club” four decades later, he shared that he does not think the flick could be remade today ...

The moment On Feb. 15, 1985, The Breakfast Club was released, setting the standard for teen films and cementing writer-director John Hughes as the master of the genre, while making its ensemble ...

“Don’t You (Forget About Me).” So goes the title of the Simple Minds song that opens “The Breakfast Club,” and since I first saw it, I certainly haven’t forgotten about it. In fact, it ...

“The Breakfast Club,” a film that felt so immediate and revealing if you were a certain age in 1985, is now, in 2025, a clearing house of the unthinkable, the expired and probably litigious.