The Breakfast Club

The key element in John Hughes’ sinister plot to control the minds of impressionable, self-absorbed teenagers across America, 1985’s The Breakfast Club offers a collection of high-school stereotypes so broad—The Jock, The Geek, The Princess, The Judd Nelson, etc.—that everyone can identify with at least one. Gathered in the world’s most luxurious public-school library for Saturday detention, they each confess (some sooner, some later) that teenage life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Updated 08/26/2009