The Live Up Podcast team reviewed 1985's The Breakfast Club, and - surprise, surprise - we thought it lived up. We did call out that this film depicts bullying, sexual harassment, and derogatory language; we don't recommend showing this film to younger children. However, these cringier moments did feel authentic to the 1980s. They were not enough to sink our opinions of the overall brilliance of the film. John Hughes with the cast of The Breakfast Club Writer/director John Hughes wrote The Breakfast Club as a 143 page screenplay (which would have had the run time of almost 2.5 hours!), but then allowed the actors to go off script and ad lib in their own voices. Letting the teens speak naturally might be the actual genius of this film. Adding their own language resulted in a shorter film that packed a bigger punch. The ad libbed dialogue also led to some of the most quotable lines of the 1980's. This line was not in the original script. John Hughes also did an excellen...
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