#905: HUGHES, John: The Breakfast Club (1985)
HUGHES, John (United States)
The Breakfast Club [1985]
Spine #905
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Twenty-two page booklet featuring an essay by author and critic David Kamp.
Commentary
From 2008 featuring actors Hall and Nelson.
Interviews
With actors Ringwald and Sheedy.
Video essay
Featuring director Hughes’s production notes, read by Nelson.
Documentary
From 2008 featuring interviews with cast and crew.
Fifty minutes
Of never-before-seen deleted and extended scenes.
Rare
Promotional and archival interviews.
Excerpts
From a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes.
Trailer
The Breakfast Club [1985]
Spine #905
Blu-ray
What happens when five strangers end up together in Saturday detention? Badass posturing, gleeful misbehavior, and a potent dose of angst. With this exuberant, disarmingly candid film, writer-director John Hughes established himself as the bard of American youth, vividly and empathetically capturing how teenagers hang out, act up, and goof off. The Breakfast Club brings together an assortment of adolescent archetypes — the uptight popular girl (Molly Ringwald), the stoic jock (Emilio Estevez), the foulmouthed rebel (Judd Nelson), the virginal bookworm (Anthony Michael Hall), and the kooky recluse (Ally Sheedy) — and watches them shed their personae and emerge into unlikely friendships. With its highly quotable dialogue and star-making performances, this exploration of the trials of adolescence became an era-defining pop-culture phenomenon, one whose influence now spans generations.
97 minutes
Color
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2018
Director/Writer
John Hughes was 35 when he wrote and directed The Breakfast Club.
The Film
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-two page booklet featuring an essay by author and critic David Kamp.
Commentary
From 2008 featuring actors Hall and Nelson.
Interviews
With actors Ringwald and Sheedy.
Video essay
Featuring director Hughes’s production notes, read by Nelson.
Documentary
From 2008 featuring interviews with cast and crew.
Fifty minutes
Of never-before-seen deleted and extended scenes.
Rare
Promotional and archival interviews.
Excerpts
From a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes.
Segment
From a 1985 episode of NBC’s Today featuring the film’s cast.
From a 1985 episode of NBC’s Today featuring the film’s cast.
Audio interview
With Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life.
With Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life.
Comments
Post a Comment