"The five teens who make up The Breakfast Club struck a major chord with its Gen X audience, earning the film over $50 million on a $1 million budget when it was released. John Hughes created characters who felt like real teenagers-and he cast five young actors who did a bang-up job portraying these realistic kids with emotion, dignity, and humor. It felt like we were watching real people overcome their prejudices together."
"After attending Stanford for a degree in Mathematics, Brian has had a successful and lucrative career as a data analyst. Unfortunately, just like when he was a teenager who thought it was a good idea to take shop to boost his GPA, Brian has continued to try to find shortcuts to reach his financial goals. It started in the late 1990s, when an old college friend who had become a dotcom millionaire invited him to invest in Pets.com, which was guaranteed to take off."
The Breakfast Club resonated with Gen X by portraying believable teenage characters overcoming prejudices. Imagining the characters forty years later places them in realistic retirement scenarios. Brian earned a Mathematics degree at Stanford and built a lucrative career as a data analyst. Brian continued to seek financial shortcuts, investing in a late-1990s dotcom and persuading his wife Alanis to cash out retirement accounts, which resulted in penalties and losses. By 2008 they had partially recovered, but the recession coincided with their children starting college, prompting distributions from IRAs to help pay tuition while avoiding early-withdrawal penalties.
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