Dramatically and funnily mixes drama and comedy

'The Breakfast Club' is a brilliant film! It's perhaps best for its target audience of teenagers, teens probably love comedy-drama films and this film dramatically and funnily mixes drama and comedy!

The film features a talented cast including under 18 actors (30 years ago :) such as Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald. The rest of the cast are also really good! The plotting is pretty intelligent. Most of the best films have a plot for adults, this one is a dramatic plot coupled with a dramatic, touching, hilarious script!

Five students are in Saturday detention, towards the end, some reveal what they're in for! This scene is sad and touching! The film takes on some really adult themes too though, such as John Bender (Judd Nelson)'s drug possession! The character of Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) is strict, determined and at brief points a bully! The five teens are different but become friends in the end!

It sort of seems to me that this film may have inspired some of the character for Bart Simpson from 'The Simpsons', due to stuff such as John saying "Eat my shorts!" to the principal and Andrew (Emilio Estevez) getting detention for taping someone's buns together (similar to Bart being thrown out a camp for super gluing his counselor's butt cheeks together, but then that was a 'Family Guy' episode rather than 'The Simpsons')

This film features a brilliant plot and acting, and where it fails is the score! While the film is mainly brilliant, it could manage without the score! The songs are kind of poor quality and pretty forgettable (apart from 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' which is a great song)! But apart from that, this is one of the best films of the 1980's, and definitely a must-see for all teens!

10/10