The Breakfast Club, a 1985 coming-of-age film starring Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson, follows five high school archetypes during a transformative Saturday in detention. The characters shed public personas through confessionals, impromptu dances and unexpected connections, revealing shared struggles of identity and alienation. John Hughes wrote much of the dialogue and the cast improvised portions. Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" became a chart-topping theme. A remastered edition appeared in theaters in 2015, and the Library of Congress selected the film for the National Film Registry in 2016.
The fact that the film has had the life that it's had, that it's transcended generations, was certainly not something that any of us anticipated when we made the film," Estevez told the Daily News in 2019. "How could you?
'The Breakfast Club' is one of the great films about identity, alienation and connection,
Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)," climbed to the top of the charts.
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