The Breakfast Club (1985) is perhaps the most iconic teen film of all time, standing simultaneously as a monument to both the sensitivity and problematic misogyny of John Hughes.
Even as the film explores themes of self-acceptance, even as it hints at how joyous life can be when we transcend the stereotypes that keep society locked in place, The Breakfast Club also perpetuates some of the most problematic tropes of toxic masculinity - and the women who can’t help but think that with just a little bit of tender love they can save the bad boys.
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as teenagers from different high school cliques who spend a Saturday in detention with their authoritarian assistant principal (Paul Gleason).
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