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    Teen and youth based films that were produced in the eighties changed how movies in the future would be scripted, produced and how the viewers would see them. One movie in particular was The Breakfast Club, which was written and directed by John Hughes who is known to have had the largest impact on youth based movies. Hughes makes his characters in depths so we can all relate to them and their struggles they are having yet he makes his films memorable and funny so they are easy to enjoy. Easy

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    teengers. In the films, Breakfast Club, Heathers, and Donnie Darko, the idea of figuring out who one is an individual runs through each movie through their teenage characters. The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, uses stereotypes and behaviors to categorize the characters. Actions, appearances, and dialects all are assigned to every person. The athlete, the criminal, the princess, the brain,

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    “The Breakfast Club”, a 1985 film, tells the story of five individuals, all from different walks of life, who find themselves together for eight hours in Saturday detention. There is Andrew the jock, Brian the nerd, Claire the princess, Ali the basket-case and Bender the criminal. Prior to the detention, they all have their own preconceived notions about each other. This is apparent in beginning of the film. Once they all enter detention, Andrew and Claire, the jock and popular girl, sit next to

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    In the beginning of the Breakfast Club, 5 individuals arrived to detention. None of them belonged in the same group. They were all polar opposites. Never spoken a word to each other. However, toward the end of the movie they all realized they weren’t as different as they seemed. They all managed to find something in common and bond over it. Once they were done getting high they all sat in a circle and talked about themselves, about why they’re in detention and how they feel like they have to try

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    The Breakfast Club is a comedy drama movie released in 1985.It was written, produced and directed by John Hughes. It is about five high school teenage students each a member of a different high school group ; Bender the criminal, Brian the brain, Claire the princess, Andrew the athlete, and Allison the basket case must put away their differences to leave their punishing detention by their strict principal. While in detention, their principal instructs them not to speak, move from their seats or

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    beyond his comfort zone to make friends and become more self-secure. Overall throughout the breakfast club there were multiple characters that portrayed cognitive advancements in abstract thought, hypothetical thought, multidimensional thought, deductive reasoning, and relativism. There are many different attributes that affect a person’s self image and one of the major keys throughout The Breakfast Club was the parenting styles of the adolescents throughout the movie. Claire’s parents have contrasting

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    The Breakfast Club is a classic 1980’s film depicting the various lives of a group of extremely diverse high school students; each dealing with and trying to overcome their own obstacles and challenges. Despite the initial conflict between the characters due to them all coming from different backgrounds and social cliques, they soon learn that they are not all so different from one another and are each struggling with similar problems within themselves and their personal lives. They eventually learn

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    Review of The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a teen-movie set in the 1980’s directed by John Hughes. John Hughes has directed other teen films, these films include: (in chronological order) · National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) · Sixteen Candles (1984) · The Breakfast Club (1985) · Pretty In Pink (1986) · Home Alone (1990) · 101 Dalmatians (1996) · Flubber (1997). All of these films are aimed at the same audience, teenagers. These

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    The Breakfast Club MPAA Rating: Restricted Breakfast club is a story of 5 different people who are forced to spend an entire Saturday together learn a little something about each other. The Jock, The Brain, The Basket-case, The Princess, and The Criminal. Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall) is the brain a straight A student who seems like he shouldn't be there, Andrew Clark (Emilio Esteves) who seems like your typical jock who seems like the guy who would end up there every now and then, also

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    The Breakfast Club was written, directed, and produced by John Hughes. The film was released February 15, 1985 which happened to be three days before his 35th birthday. The film stared the likes of Emilio Esteves (Andrew Clark), Anthony Michael Hall (Brian Johnson), Judd Nelson (John Bender), Molly Ringwald (Claire Standish), Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds), and Paul Gleason (Richard Vernon). The Breakfast Club is about five stereotypical high school students serving detention together, we have Andrew

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