by Kori Washington

He wrote it in two days.

This is how long it took filmmaker and producer John Hughes to write the script for the 80s classic “The Breakfast Club.” He had been inspired by an early draft of the script, which was discovered years later, after the movie premiered.

Fun fact. The film’s title was inspired by the name of a detention program at his friend’s son’s school. This is important because the title’s symbolic meaning lies in showing the unlikely “club” of outcasts from different social cliques. 

This leads me into the plot of the story. The story begins on one morning when five students of different social groups are all put together for Saturday detention. Once all students are in the building, the vice principal, Richard Vernon, assigns them to write a 1,000-word essay with the prompt “Who you think you are?” 

But as the day goes on, the students realize they have more in common than they thought.

The film was great. I love how Hughes made every character different, with totally different lives, but in the end, they all had problems. Throughout the movie, the characters slowly start to warm up to each other, which leads them to reveal the reason they ended up in detention in one big circle.

This is my favorite part of the movie because this scene shows so much emotion and passion.

And the person who really stuck out to me in this scene was Anthony Michael Hall, who plays Brian Johnson in the film. He really stood out to me because he was talking about the stress of trying to be this perfect kid who also gets straight A’s on everything, and during this scene, I could really relate to him.

During this scene, I also loved seeing each character share their story and tell everyone about all the trouble they have in their lives, which I think was very healing for each of them to share what they had bottled up for so long.  

Overall, I think “The Breakfast Club” was an amazing movie because it shows how different people can come together and really understand each other. It teaches that everyone has their own struggles, and sometimes all it takes is opening up to realize we’re not that different after all.