by marie almond

Created on: August 11, 2008

In 1985, A John Hughes movie called The Breakfast Club showed typical high school students, cliques, and The Brat Pack. Scripts of High school life has been done numerous times before and after this movie, and you can still find that this movie done 25 years ago still reflects the current angst of teenagers everywhere.

The cast of characters can be found in any high school in any city or town. We can all relate to at least one of the characters. Detention is sometimes a useless way to punish students and most of us have done our time in a classroom with other students we normally would not associate with.

Allsion, played by Alley Sheedy. Considered the basket case, a disturbed girl mostly remembered for using her dandruff as snow for her drawing. She also was the one who makes a strange sandwich combination and throws her balony on the statue in the library. What did she do to merit a Saturday in detention...nothing. She had nothing better to do.

Andrew, played by Emilio Esteves. The Jock, right away in the beginning of the movie, you see that his dad is pushing him. Andrew falls prey to peer pressure and receives detention for taping a nerds buttcheeks together. A horrible prank that even he thought went to far, but caved into the jock stereotype.

And I could not forget Mr. Vernon, played by Paul Gleason. You loved to hate him. There is a teacher like him in every school in America. He nailed the know it all that just does not get it. He does just enough teaching to get by without a care for any of the students. He gets off on pulling rank in front of these kids and in the end the jokes on him.

In detention, these students are suppose to write an essay about who they think they are and Brian opts to write one essay for all five of them. And like the essay says, somehwere inside all of us we are jocks, princesses, basket cases, nerds and jocks.

Brian, played by Anthony Michael Hall. A kid that has obviosly been pushed around all his academic career. Very smart, very nerdy and just about snapped and tried to take his own life with a flare gun. But the funny part was that it went off in his locker. Hence, the detention. But what is not funny is that even today, kids that are bulled, do drastic things to either seek revenge or end it themselves.

Claire, played by Molly Ringwald. Classic high school beauty. She is rich, she is poplular and basically had it pretty easy. But she revealve that it not so easy to appear that you have it all together when inside your falling apart. She got detentio for skipping school and went shopping. She is falling for the one of students in detention and admits that even though she likes the people around her on that Saturday, she would not accknowledge them on Monday.

John, played by Judd Nelson. This is the student that you would call a slacker or a rebel. Detention is nothing new to him and tries to prove to everyone there that he is tough as nails. He instigates fights amoung others and he also finds himself falling for Claire. John tells of his home life full of abuse and it puts a reason to why he acts the way he does.

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