The Breakfast Club Page #12

Synopsis: Beyond being in the same class at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, Brian Johnson and Allison Reynolds have little in common, and with the exception of Claire and Andrew, do not associate with each other in school. In the simplest and in their own terms, Claire is a princess, Andrew an athlete, John a criminal, Brian a brain, and Allison a basket case. But one other thing they do have in common is a nine hour detention in the school library together on Saturday, March 24, 1984, under the direction of Mr. Vernon, supervising from his office across the hall. Each is required to write a minimum one thousand word essay during that time about who they think they are. At the beginning of those nine hours, each, if they were indeed planning on writing that essay, would probably write something close to what the world sees of them, and what they have been brainwashed into believing of themselves. But based on their adventures during that nine
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): John Hughes
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1985
97 min
21,092 Views


He turns and walks away. We see that he still has the

toilet seat cover stuck to his pants.

Vernon leaves.

Everyone laughs except Claire who lets Bender out to a

barage of slaps.

BENDER:

It was an accident!

CLAIRE:

You're an a**hole!

BENDER:

So sue me...

Bender gets up and walks over to Brian.

BENDER:

So, Ahab...Kybo Mein Doobage...

Brian gives Bender his bag of marajuana. Bender turns

and walks away.

ANDREW:

Yo waistoid...you're not gonna blaze

up in here!

Claire gets up and goes after him. Then Brian.

ANDREW:

Sh*t...

Andrew goes.

CUT TO:

25. INT. STAIRS - DAY

We see Vernon go down the stairs.

CUT TO:

26. INT. LIBRARY - DAY

Brian, Bender and Claire are sitting in a circle and

laughing hysterically.

Bender lights Claire up and she coughs the smoke out.

Brian laughs at her. He exhales and tries to eat the

smoke. He talks in a really weird voice.

BRIAN:

Chicks, cannot hold der smoke! That's

what it is!

CLAIRE:

Do you know how popular I am? I'm

so popular, everybody loves me so

much, at this school...

BENDER:

Poor baby.

Brian waves Claire over to him and he falls over.

We see Andrew emerge from a really smokey room. He

inhales another puff and then starts dancing to

everybody's applause.

He goes back in the room he was in. He screams and it

shatters the glass in the door.

CUT TO:

27. INT. BASEMENT - DAY

Vernon is glancing through the confidential files in

the

school basement.

VERNON:

(to himself)

Mister, oh mister Tearney...a

history of slight mental illness?

Wooh, no wonder he's so f***ed up!

Carl enters.

CARL:

Afternoon, Dick...

VERNON:

Hey Carl, how you doin'?

CARL:

Good...

VERNON:

Good, what's up?

CARL:

Not much, what's happening, what

are you doing in the basement files?

VERNON:

Oh, nothin' nothin' here. I'm just

doin' a little homework here...

CARL:

Homework, huh?

VERNON:

Yeah...

Carl, laughing, comes over and looks at the files that

Vernon was looking at.

CARL:

Confidential files...hmmm?

VERNON:

Look, Carl...this is a highly

sensitive area and I, I tell you

something...certain people would be

very very embarrassed. I would really

appreciate it if if if if this would

be something that, that you and I

could keep between us...

CARL:

What're you gonna do for me, man?

VERNON:

Well, well what would you like?

CARL:

Got fifty bucks?

VERNON:

What?

CARL:

Fifty bucks...

CUT TO:

28. INT. LIBRARY - DAY

We see Andrew and Brian laughing. Allison is hanging

out over by the statue in the back of the library.

ANDREW:

No no man, no; you got a middle

name?

BRIAN:

Yeah, guess...

Allison suddenly takes interest in the conversation and

as she speaks, she moves over and sits next to the two.

ALLISON:

Your middle name is Ralph, as in

puke...

Brian and Andrew look at her in confusion.

ALLISON:

...your birthday is March 12th,

you're five-nine and a half you

weigh a hundred and thirty pounds

and your social security number is

0-4-9-3-8-0-9-1

(a beat)

3.

Andrew is impressed.

ANDREW:

Wow! Are you psychic?

ALLISON:

No...

BRIAN:

Well would you mind telling me how

you know all this about me?

Allison reaches in her bag.

ALLISON:

I stole your wallet...

She produces it in her hands and grins.

BRIAN:

Give it to me...

ALLISON:

No...

BRIAN:

Give it!

Allison reluctantly hands over the wallet and Brian

glances through it to make sure nothing is missing.

BRIAN:

This is great...you're a thief too!

Huh?

ALLISON:

I'm not a thief!

BRIAN:

Multi-talented!

ALLISON:

What's there to steal? Two bucks

and a beaver shot!

ANDREW:

A what?

ALLISON:

He's got a nudie picture in there!

I saw it, it's perverted!

ANDREW:

Alright, let's see it!

We see Bender, he is brushing his teeth with one of

Claire's cosmetic brushes.

We see Claire looking through Bender's wallet pictures.

CLAIRE:

Are all these your girlfriends?

BENDER:

Some of them...

CLAIRE:

What about the others?

BENDER:

Well, some I consider my girlfriends

and some...I just consider...

CLAIRE:

Consider what?

BENDER:

Whether or not, I wanna hang out

with them...

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John Hughes

An American filmmaker. Beginning as an author of humorous essays and stories for National Lampoon, he went on to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s. Most of Hughes's work is set in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is best known for his coming-of-age teen comedy films which often combined magic realism with honest depictions of suburban teenage life. more…

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