Filmmaker reacts to The Breakfast Club (1985) for the FIRST TIME! 

I met John Hughes in a book store outside Chicago once in 1988 and told him I was a film student at Columbia and was there any advice he could pass on? To my shock? He stood there for 15 minutes and told me he had never been on a movie set before 16 Candles and knew next to nothing about filmmaking having gotten in as a writer. He did pass on probably the BEST advice I ever got as a student filmmaker. He told me " Don't get caught up in the technicalities of filmmaking. Rely on your crew for that. Remember everything depends on the written page. Focus on the story and character development because a movie can be poorly shot but if the story and characters are well written? The audience wont notice and better yet. They wont care"..... R.I.P John...

This is one of those movies that should never get a remake or something. They'd ruin it. Just my opinion.

These weren't cliche'd characters at the time that the film was released; at the time, these archetypes were recognizable personalities in High School. So many films *SINCE* "The Breakfast Club" have *used* those archetypes, though, that you have to understand that this was literally one of the first teen films to do this. Nobody else but John Hughes at the time, was making films with teenagers as human beings with feelings - it felt revolutionary. His movies spoke to us in a way that other "teen" films just didn't. Prior to Hughes, most "teen" films were just silly sex comedies.

Brian's dad picking him up at the end is the director John Hughes. Also, Andrew's confession during the circle meeting was not scripted. Estevez just went with it and pulled it off. You can see Bender is uncomfortable when Andrew said "You don't even count" cause probably his dad has told him that many times. He almost looks like he wants to break down at one point. And the part of them fighting boredom as well. They all just did what they thought would get rid of boredom. None of it scripted.

Ally Sheedy is my favorite. So many little bits make Allison great, but taking the knife from off-frame and stealing Brian's wallet (presumably when they are walking the halls) makes her the best. I love that her first word is "Vodka" as we enter the second act 🤣🤣🤣 and that she's just there because she's bored and has nothing else to do 😅

Ally Sheedy is amazing in this. I'm a guy, but she was a bit like me in high school. Very socially awkward, didn't say much, but when I did, it was usually something ridiculous and insane. I could have said a lot of her lines back then. I didn't have a clue how to behave because I'd been homeschooled until the age of 16 and my dad was very abusive and didn't let me hang out with kids my own age. He thought they were a "bad influence." So I didn't relate to anyone when I got to school at all. I didn't understand any of their conversations. I had to learn everything on the fly and I became a pretty bitter, angry kid. I wanted to be around people, but when I was I'd push them away, just like she does.

Here's the thing about Vernon threatening Bender - that shit happened all the time. Only since people were able to be caught on camera has that changed. The teacher was always believed over the student back then. Always.

The scene where he's crawling through the ceiling and telling a joke to himself always stuck with me. Specifically the fact that he never finishes the joke. It bugged the hell out of me. For years I tried to find out what the end of that joke was. I tried looking up books about the movie, watching interviews with the actors, I even spent a lot of time in libraries looking through joke books full of one liners and dirty jokes, all so I could find out what the punch line was. This was all pre-internet, so it wasn't easy and took a lot of time. Decades went by, and I'm working a retail job on a Sunday. The radio in the store is tuned to a station that normally plays music, but because it was Sunday morning, they had this sort of interview show; something to do with providing a "public service" so they could maintain their broadcast license. Anyway, they were interviewing one of the writers for this movie. I paid attention as I worked, but I didn't expect anything to come of it. To my surprise, when the call in part of the show rolled around, one of the callers asked about the joke. "I'm finally going to get my answer!" I thought. "Oh, there is no ending to that joke" the writer said. "The character was never meant to finish it, so we didn't bother coming up with one. We just wrote what sounded like the beginning of a good joke and left it at that." I almost threw something through a nearby wall, and the one customer in the store looked at me funny.

Nice pick James. I was 14 in 1985 so, this is pretty much exactly what high school was like back then. There weren't too many movies like this...

I once watched this while high and decided to recreate the butter, cereal and sugar sandwich. By the time I finished eating it my body shook so much that I started to phase through walls.

One of my favorite movies. And Alison saying that her parents ignore her still hits hard, because that was me.

this movie is so dope, I just adore that the actors are the main focus- they carry the entire story for me, which is so awesome. I can rewatch this again and again! Hope you enjoyed this one James, catch you in the next one🤍

I gotta give you props two times: one, you nailed it comparing Emilio Estevez jumping around high as a kite to Tom Cruise. I grew up with this movie and seen it easily a hundred times. But never saw it till you threw that out there just how much his performance when he gets really, really intense is totally Tom energy. Now I wonder if that was on purpose because it is so specific and precise to Cruise's style of acting, particularly then. And two, when Judd Nelson is tossing the basketball and taunting the teacher, he then says the word, 'Scholarship' got you to laugh which I was wondering if you'd react to it at all. Very gratifying you found it funny. We all did first seeing it in theatres in '84. I bring it up because some people don't really read into it or it goes over their head what he's doing there. In real life, Judd went to a predominantly black school so all his friends were black thus his influences was black culture. So it would seep into his film roles in subtle and different ways. That line reading was deliberately for a childhood friend of his because that was an in joke between them. But, he laughed during filming just how white the movie was considering his actual high school experience was the opposite. Happy you dug it. I think you dig goth girl, my dude. You know you like that dander. ;P

Iconic and groundbreaking as it is I've always been sorta bummed about Allison getting a makeover. Other than that, real shit. My dad was pretty much the same as Bender's dad (except for the cigar burning) and this being on HBO all the time back then made for some uncomfortable family TV watching. And the teacher threatening a student happened all the time, even to 14-15 year olds. The big question is what did the characters do when Monday came around? Oh, and a funny thing: in the beginning one of the "Man Of The Year" award winners behind the glass is Carl the Janitor.

My younger brother was recently in a high school stage performance version of this movie. He played the nerd.

Making the goth girl stop being goth by the end of the movie was the only misstep

Love this movie too. It's actually one of my favorites.

The thing that blows my mind is how much I have changed how I see this film from when I was 15 (when it came out) to 54 (My age now.) I still think it's better than any teen movie ever made. At the time I was blown away with how well it showed what being a teenager in the mid-1980's was like. Every generation of teenager thinks no one has ever faced the challenges they face, so how could someone who was a teenager in the 1960's understand the issues faced by teenagers in the 1980's? Now I understand thar it is not so different, 1965, 75, 85, 95 05, 15, and I'll bet good money that 25 will be just the same. Not identical, but close enough. I think it would make being a teenager a lot easier if teens knew just how much their parents really do understand about being a teenager. I've tried sending messages back to my teenage self, but he was far to self involved to even notice the attempts.

Such a great classic film! Thanks for bringing us the joy today James. Hope you're loving life and experiencing all the good things!

One of the best coming of age movies around. A classic John Hughes film. It really spoke to my generation and I think portions still resonate with younger generations as well. Truth has no expiration date.

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Side note: Dandruff isn't being dirty. Dandruff is just dead skin cells from dry scalp.

This is just one of those staple movies that everyone should watch at least once. Has always been one of my favourites

One of my favorite films - so glad you watched it, very much appreciate your analysis!

This really would be a great play since most was shot in the library.

Carl's rip on the whole crew when he comes into the library is great but ended up on the cutting room floor. Also Carl's picture, in the beginning when they show school trophies and pictures, of him elected as most likely to succeed Is priceless, considering he's now the janitor of his old high school. I also love it when Allison steals 1999 from a teacher's locker.

Great movie, but one major criticism I have of it; The massive "downgrade" of Allison near the end, how making her more in accordance to 'beauty standards' suddenly improved things. Never liked that and the sort of message that would give to certain people. This only affects me because I know people close to me who needed to hear that they're fine in their own way, and that own way of theirs is similar enough to Allison. Shouldn't have to conform to find the kind of love she does. And no, I don't mean the being dirty part. It's the everything else. Otherwise, one of my favorite films.

It was perfect timing me and this movie. I first watched it weeks before I finished school for the last time, and everything about it hit harder than I could’ve imagined. Not that I had friends who did horrendous stuff to get them in detention or anything, but in terms of making me appreciate everyone I knew at school, anyone who I even remotely cared about, they were all facing their own battles through the system, in this important stage in their life growing up into adults and be expected to make decisions that’ll change the rest of their lives. That Bowie quote at the start kinda sums it up. That’s what I took away from it. This is one of my absolute favourite movies. Takes me back to that summer I left school, a summer that seemed to last forever once school was over and everyone I knew for years had gone, an endless summer really (synthwave reference for anyone there, goes hand in hand with 80s movies really).

I literally just saw this movie for the first time last night. I didn't expect to dislike it, but I am surprised how much i did like it. It was unexpectedly raw and heartfelt. I appreciate how it communicates how we are more than our restrictive labels, and I feel like that's a message that people in their teens and twenties really need to hear because for whatever reason, social media has influenced people in such a way that everybody is obsessed with reducing their identity to labels and hardline categories. Granted, a lot of those categories are a bit different , but I still think young Millenials and Gen Z would do well to see this movie and take it to heart. The whole "overcoming the suppression of the human spirit" theme gives me One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vibes, and I dig it.

That school is now a police station (and I think part jail). I drove by it a few years back. I went on a John Hughes tour with a friend. Saw the house the Ferrari was in in Ferris Bueller. Weird science house. Risky business house. Even the home alone house are all within like a 20 minute drive of each other.

One of the greatest 80s films ever! It is part of the John Hughes trifecta with 16 Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off that are required viewing for all teenagers.

They weren’t actually cliches. In the 80s, these groups existed within schools. This movie is very accurate regarding high school life.

Ally Sheedy is awesome in this. I Also love her in War Games.

Dazed and Confused - 1977 / Breakfast Club - 1983 it was supposed to be contemporary. Thanks for the good times, James!

This is one of the best movies in my opinion

I lived in the 80s when that came out and it was like that.

John Hughes is a genius in stating the obvious...It's not a comedy...it's not a drama...it's being young and becoming aware...and nobody cared. These stereotypes still exist as painful as it is, the point is, most of us got along. Even when we weren't supposed to. Saturday school effing sucked. I was absolutely Bender, but nice. A punk rocker with a cheerleader girlfriend. Timeless

You made me notice things I haven’t before. Love your vid.

The fist in the air freeze... maybe the most epic movie end shot, ever! The 2010 Oscars, the entire cast gets onstage to do a memorial for him, plus Ferris Bueller and home alone kid! All John Hughes movies must be watched! He did teen angst better than anyone! He was also involved in movies that he's not credited for such as animal House, Caddyshack, stripes, Vacation movies, blues brothers. He was a fast and prolific script writer. Other must watch are, pretty in pink, 16candles, home alone 1-2, uncle Buck, Plains trains and automobiles! Judd Nelson is in my opinion in this movie, the all time best protagonist/ antagonist character, ever written! Just watch all John Hughes movies, and u will get the entire 80s, whether kid movies, coming of age, or even adult with Uncle Buck and Planes trains and Automobiles! Pro tip, when they are smoking pot, Bender doesn't smoke. He gets them all high, on purpose! The goth girl....she doesn't smoke for personal reasons she told the director. She doesn't think her character would need to smoke pot. Also, there's no dialogue in the script....the actors addlibbed the whole scene 😮😮😮. To add more depth....This is why all John Hughes movies must be watched! Including movies he worked on but uncredited for such as vacation, caddyshack, stripes, animal house, blues brothers... Bender is the most singular at one time, protagonist and antagonist together, in one film! He gets them to talk , talk to each other , and be truthful about themselves! Each of their lunches represents their lives, Bender has none. Also, Bender gets them all to do something they normally wouldn't, smoke weed. He doesn't smoke! By the way, what they do during that scene is addlibbed! Carl is the fully grown up and self realized version of Bender! Red head guy is Anthony Michael Hall. He had the most successful and longest movie career. He started in Vacation, and was last seen in The Dark Knight! His fist pump at the end, addlibbed. The principal also in diehard! But this cast all did very good movies after this. Anthony did several John Hughes movies! This, vacation, weird science, pretty in pink, 16 candles, not sure if Hughes did Johnny B Goode. This vast got together about 10-15 years ago at the Oscars, and did a beautiful tribute to Hughes passing. Type in here, the cast Emilio esteves is the son of Martin Sheen, brother of Charlie! of breakfast club at the Oscars tribute to John Hughes. He did an excellent funny movie called Stakeout! Hughes was prolific. He could write entire scripts in a couple weeks! Bender guy did an excellent lawyer type movie, a funny TV show, and was in New Jack City!

I know EVERY WORD to this film. The soundtrack is awesome too

Carl is the MAN imo. The smile on his face as they're all leaving is proof alone that he looks at these kids like actual people, not just as kids. Like, he gives them the respect that they're due as people trying to find their way in the world whereas Dick just looks at them like a burden, like little children who don't listen and who need to be 'tamed'. Carl is the MAN. I think the main reason the movie works so well, and that it IS so timeless, is in big part due to the way it's confined to one place, and they way the kids are written the way most writers would write adults. They're not dumbed down and simplified, they're written like genuine regular people with the same kinds of problems most of us have faced at some point, these people just happen to have their school and home lives as the core. Like, instead of workplace pressures it's school pressures, and instead of issues at home with a spouse/kids/etc it's with their parents. Also, setting the movie almost exclusively in the library makes it instantly familiar, and somewhat comfortable, for almost everyone who'll ever watch it. There's no regular distractions of new environments, no changing pace or colour palette or whatever that would come with even something like Clueless. I also love that, as you pointed out, when each of the actors has a scene where they're the focal point, they really just grab onto it, they hold the scene and really just kind of live in it and make it theirs, but there's no oneupmanship like you might find in a movie where one particular actor is a bigger star than the others, or the writers might have a favourite character or whatever, they're all very much each other's equals in almost every aspect. It's perfect.

This is one movie where I think a modern sequel could actually work really well. Imagine five teenagers today having to spend a day together without their phones.

This is my favorite movie of ALL TIME!!! Glad you enjoyed it❤❤

When i first met my now fiancee, i walked into her room and she had a huge Breakfast Club poster above her bed and told me it was her favorite movie. I knew we were gonna hit it off just fine

James please take this comment seriously and I know you'll get countless recommendations so understand its hard to take on board all of them. But please consider reacting to the following movies that are so criminally underrated as they were not really advertised and promotedvery well. But I know you will love them. Wisdom 1986 with Emilio Estevez in and Demi Moore in. Love and a 45 1994. And Natural Born Killers 1994. Other reactors don't really know about these films. But they are all amazing classics. When you see them you'll know why. Keep up your great reactions by the way.

Hard Candy would be great from a location perspective because it takes place mostly in 2 or 3 rooms. You could go into the colors in the rooms and the framing of the shots. Room (with Brie Larson, not The Room) would also be an interesting one, too. It also is very limited in location, so what they do with the space is great. That's one where Room becomes a character in its own right.

this film gave me so much false hopes for in-school suspension. It was never an adventure! Thx for sharing

7:03 the teenager on whatever podcast that asked the girl to name 10 books and she couldn’t. He looks similar

This and Ferris Bueller's day off, probably have 2 of the most emotional moments from a young character I've ever seen

The quintessential Gen X movies. Brian and I even had the same soup thermos.

Come on man. Dandruff doesn’t mean someone is dirty. It’s a skin condition.

Nobody understands the 80s teen like John Hughes. You should really go through his entire filmography. I love this movie, because such a large portion of it is set in one location that library. I love movies that use very few locations like that. The original saw movie was mostly set in that dingy bathroom with just two guys. Gravity was mostly Sandra Bullock in a space capsule. These characters were the perfect archetypes of the typical teen.

🔥🔥🔥GREAT REACTION!🔥🔥🔥 I was in high school in SoCal from 1983 - 1987. This movie perfectly captures the vibe and personalities. Of course it was not a 1:1 match, (many of us were some of each), but I still watch this 1-2 times/year, because it transports me back. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️

RIP John Hughes. One of my favorite tiny details that's so easy to miss is at the very beginning we see the janitor's picture on the wall because he used to be a student at the school and was voted most likely to succeed or somesuch. A short amount of years later here he is a janitor at his old high school - but he seems perfectly SATISFIED in his job, and he's observantly explaining to the teacher of 22 years experience why _he's_ out of touch. Got to admit that _some_ parts of John Hughes films haven't aged well, but the guy was brilliant and despite how we might look at some things differently now he had a fantastic touch as a filmmaker.

Oh the 80s where we were taught sexual harassment was part of boys will be boys flirty behavior, where the insults hit hard, and where no matter what we wouldn’t have snitched to a adult or gone to them for help. We were more likely to take matters into our own hands if we felt it necessary. I still look back with so much love and sadness at our GenX experience. The breakfast club did such a good job of encapsulating so many of our experiences.

I've been watching this film since I was a kid. It's timeless. It will always be a classic.

Watched your channel forever been waitin for you to watch my favorite movie

Here's a few movies that impacted me. First Blood, Willow, The Bear, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, WarGames, Powder, Misery, Pet Sematary, Silver Bullet, U-571, The Edge, Lionheart, Need for Speed, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Behind Enemy Lines, Speed Racer, Universal Soldier, Universal Soldier Regeneration, Kickboxer, Adventures in Babysitter, Reservoir, Red Dawn, Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Legend, Wizard of Oz, Joy Ride, 1408, Dreamcatcher, Commando, Last Action Hero, Kindergarten Cop, Cop and a Half, Grease, Porkys, Happy Gilmore, Mallrats, Dogma, Titanic, Armageddon, Babe, Bingo, Desperado, Matilda

I have to strongly disagree. People definitely care if you're a "virgin". I'm asexual and sex repulsed and trust me, people definitely care.

I just visited the film location this morning. One of my favorite movies ❤️

Here's a trippy fact... The principal in this movie was friends/drinking buddies with Jack Kerouac towards the end of Jack's life. Not so square now, huh? PS: Appreciate you here, James. We need more humans like you.

All of these characters were represented in this current season of Stranger Things! Ally Sheedy is Suzys sister, emilio esteves is Jason, Anthony Michael Hall is Nancys friend who dies Fred, Judd nelson is Eddie, and Molly Ringwald is Chrissy essentially.

John Hughes is a criminally underrated filmmaker. He wrote or wrote and directed some of the best comedies/dramedies of the 1980s: National Lampoon's Vacation; Mr. Mom; Home Alone; The Breakfast Club; Pretty in Pink; Sixteen Candles; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Admittedly, the stuff he did after the 80s was less than stellar, but there are countless people who'd love to be responsible for even one of the films I listed, and he was a central figure in all of them.

To your point, I spent several years on many work trips with a group of guys who would drink and smoke after work... til very early in the morning. Since I was most similar to the blond nerdy guy in this movie I did neither and always volunteered to be the DDriver. Based on all that time in the group, if I was King of the world and had to ban one, it would easily be drinking. Not even close. Great reaction btw.

Since you’re really interested in “locations” I highly recommend “In Bruges” Really good movie One of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time

One of my favorite movies ever

recommend Pump Up the Volume (starring Christian Slater) as another good movie in this vein, dealing with high school and problems

Hey James have you watched BEEF yet?? another instant classic

*Hey, by any chance are you on the spectrum? I'm autistic myself and you remind me of myself a lot. It's always cool to see others making it big as it's a dream of mine.*

I think it’s funny that they get high in the library and the teacher doesn’t catch the smell of it. I like marijuana as a pain reliever. I feel it’s much better than opioids and other pain meds. Plus with pain at times you don’t feel like eating so if you get the munchies as a side effect of smoking it that’s a positive. This movie is really good. They don’t only focus on one type of person. You have all the different groups from high school to show not everyone has a perfect life. It’s sad when you realize the reason Bender is pushing the teacher for more detention is so he doesn’t have to spend time at home. I don’t like that towards the end the popular girl uses Brian’s feelings for her to get him to write an essay for the whole group.

My favorite movie of all time with one of my favorite reactors! Oh i'm gonna enjoy this one

Dude one of my favorites. Classic 80s.

I was born in 82 but this film held up well when I was in high school and it became one of my all time favorites, John Hughes knew how to write for teens especially in the 80s

As a high schooler, this film really spoke to me... hit the emotional button in so many ways. But for something that stands the test of time for my youth, the TV show "FREAKS AND GEEKS" is the BEST. You should do a reaction to that series. It's absolutely brilliant and you'll recognize so many young stars... Seth Rogan, James Franco, and more... It's so well done, and I think you'd love it.

I was in high school when this came out. It really hit home for a lot of the kids I was in school with. It covered so many of the things everyone was dealing with. Social pressures, home life, cliques, you name it. This movie is two hours of dialogue yet every high school kid absolutely loved it.

My first thought was: James hasn't done Breakfast Club yet????? And then my second thought was: omg I get to watch James watch the Breakfast Club!!!

To see Judd Nelson (Bender) in a totally opposite role you need to watch the 96 comedy Airheads with Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler. It's hilarious!!

I love this movie

This was a decidedly Gen X movie. It DID definitely spill down to Millenials, but it was Gen X that it was made for and that were teens at the time it was released/came out on video. When I was a kid (maybe 8 to 10), my older sister who was a teen would have her girl friends over and they would watch this every time. They would also watch Dream A Little Dream with the Cory brothers. Would you consider reviewing Dream A Little Dream? It's a very strange movie in that I don't think it carried down as a classic or survived the history test, and its theme had a metaphysical element that introduced concepts of enduring love in youth and old age, told through a lens of teenage drama that the metaphysical element disrupts and adds moral intervention to. Even though Dream a Little Dream isn't remembered, I know it was beloved by a lot of Gen X teens. I never see anyone review it and I wld like to see what you think of it.

One of my all time favorites. Thank you. An interesting movie for location would be Toy Soldiers from 1991. It's about a prep college that gets taken hostage.

I've loved this movie since I first saw it at 13. I already enjoyed teen movies and I was going through my 80's media phase lol. This really touched on some heavy topics and felt very relatable. I definitely identified with Allison as a fellow "goth" quiet girl in school. I never really liked the makeover scene though other than it helped her and Claire bond. But she was fine the way she was before. 🖤 Lmao the dandruff scene is so gross yet hilarious. Using it as art. 😂

1985 Show up to school with a gun, you get detention. 1995 they call the police and you go to jail, 2005 they call SWAT and you go to the morgue.

*Famous lines from the film:* "Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?" "Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns." "When you grow up, your heart dies." "Who cares?" "I care."

Very common misconception of people thinking dandruff = dirty. Your harping on it was pretty insensitive. It's not your fault tho. It just sucked hearing you shred that girl because of it. She could wash her hair every day with the correct shampoo and still have it. Just look it up if you want to know more - dandruff is not necessarily an indicator of poor hygiene.

Pay attention to the nuances of the dynamics of the SOCIOLOGY and PSYCHOLOGY of the bigger picture. What the producers did right is realize the magnitude of tiny details. It’s all in the details with this. Yet it doesn’t get lost with the general public. It hits every single person. And they will watch it more than once, and get more out of it every time they do. ~ NOTHING IS ONLY ONE THING ~ You can picture yourself in each one’s shoes… when it’s quiet at night and they are in their beds waiting for their wake up alarms to go off in the morning to face another day of their reality that they can’t change no matter how much they want to. Each and every single character’s story is very personal, and completely different, and completely the same, including the principal’s. He went to that school and his journey from his jr. year to the present went askew. He said to the janitor, while having a beer in the school basement, that the thing that scared him most was that those kids(that generation) would be the ones taking care of him when he gets old someday. The janitor responded with “Not likely.” because he was such a jerk to them. HIGH SCHOOL is HARD and can fk up even the most stable person on a random bad day. Time moves at a different speed. So much can change you in such a small period of time. And it feels like you have almost no choices; powerless. Depressing, frustrating, and daunting. But the good news is, time is on their side and the world is THEIR oyster. They just don’t realize it yet. And ALMOST NO ONE turns out the way you’d expect from highschool to 30yo. Thank goodness! You gotta trust the kids a little bit. Teach, but respect. Because like it or not, this is THEIR world and you will soon be only a passenger. 😉 Personally my favorite part is the tension and paradox between Claire and John Bender. ❤️ AND, that quiet girl is the most awake, and sanest one of the bunch. She is a sharp observer of the human animal. So much so that she feels foreign. She grew up like an isolated island, with feelings. I like that they added kleptomania to her list of quirks. Tells a lot. WHY does one steal things that they don’t even need or want?? They steal just for the sake of stealing. EVERYONE IS AFRAID OF PEOPLE. Everyone. AND YA, DAD NEED TO SEE THAT. Smart move.

This will always be one of my favorite movies.

technically dandruff isn't dirty. I used to get it a lot as a teen. my mom made me wash my hair twice a day because of it but that only made it worse. her parents didn't teach her how to treat the dandruff or were like mine and thought more washing would make the skin stop drying out like that lol

The irony is I didn't appreciate this film when I was in high school in the 90s. It was "too old"...but now as an adult, this movie is such a classic. Lots of great close ups when real intimate moments happen between the characters and just great story telling.

John Hughes found a way to take movies with simple, relatable concepts and immediately recognisable character archetypes and inject real pain, real suffering and just real emtions in but still keep it funny and fresh. He managed to strike the perfect balance of these elements over and over and over again making some of the best films of all time. Breakfast Club, Ferris Beuller, Planes Trains and Automobiles, the list just goes on.

Y9u should really react to PUMP UP THE VOLUME. A amazing coming of age teen movie with real deep messages. Not known though, also has Christian Slater in it.

So, by the end, did you see why it was a big deal? It seemed your expectations were low. I’m glad you enjoyed it. May your views and likes always be equal.

Most of the movie takes place in one or two rooms. It is a COMPLETELY different type of movie but this movie is every bit as much of a character study as the original 12 Angry Men.

Just wanted to say, loved your reaction for this. Too many react channels are literally just that, an hour plus of someone laughing, cheering or crying along with a movie, and at the end just saying "that was good and I liked these parts" without much analysis or insight of the movie they're watching, no appreciation of the filming choices, not offering up their own perspectives or breaking down scenes or explaining why they think a shot, a line, a look is effective at establishing a character, etc This checked all those boxes and more for me, and as someone who grew up with this movie and has seen it more times than I can remember, I think you absolutely nailed it on all fronts. Consider me subbed!

I'm a 80s kid . People were brutal, blunt, scary honest sometimes.

21:05 Would it still be statutory rape if an underage girl paid an adult man to have sex with them, or would it be prostitution? When I was in high school a girl (who was 15 at the time) tried to set a guy up for rape by coming onto him, then after the consensual encounter she had a male friend beat the crap out of her. She then reported it as a rape and the guy was in huge trouble, until the girl's younger sister turned her diary over to police. In the diary she described in detail her plans before they happened, then how pleased she was with the results after it happened. They police questioned the guy who had done the beating and he spilled the beans. She ended up going to prison for quite a while, they even convicted *HER* of "rape by deception."

"Saint Elmo's Fire" should be next...... Just Sayin'😊😊

I know this is an old video, but the scene where they were all sitting on the floor talking sort of round table, mist of that scene was improv/ad libbed. These kids for their age were remarkably talented.

Holy shit, I know exactly what kid your'e talking about.... "Name 10 books!"

Fun fact.. in the very beginning of the movie they show a picture of the man of the year. It’s the janitor.

The jocks best role is as Billy the kid in "Young guns". Which takes place in the wild west. Great scenery!