The Breakfast Club
Overview
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen drama film written and directed by John Hughes. The storyline follows five teenagers (each a member of a different high school
clique
) as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotype
s.
The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in the fictitious Chicago
suburb of Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24, 1984.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
clique
Clique
A clique is an exclusive group of people who share common interests, views, purposes, patterns of behavior, or ethnicity. A clique as a reference group can be either normative or comparative. Membership in a clique is typically exclusive, and qualifications for membership may be social or...
) as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotype
Stereotype
A stereotype is a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings...
s.
The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in the fictitious Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
suburb of Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24, 1984.
Unanswered Questions
Quotations
They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.
They were five total strangers, with nothing in common, meeting for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse. Before the day was over, they broke the rules. Bared their souls and touched each other in a way they never dreamed possible.
Five strangers with nothing in common, except each other.