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The Breakfast Club

June 2024

  • Michael Anthony Hall

    ‘My life was surreal’: Anthony Michael Hall on John Hughes, therapy and his ‘wild ass’ childhood

    He was a Hollywood sensation headlining on Saturday Night Live – and was still too young for a driving licence. But things did not always go well for The Breakfast Club actor

November 2022

  • The soundtrack to Pretty in Pink gave the Psychedelic Furs a huge hit in 1986.

    The power of music in John Hughes films: ‘When you hear those songs you see those moments’

    The director’s movies provided an intense emotive soundtrack to teenagers’ lives. A new box set collects tracks from his best-loved films, by artists such as Simple Minds, the Smiths and OMD

September 2021

  • TKJudd

    Teenage kicks
    Judd Nelson: ‘Wearing a giant papier-mache head and smoking pot was a great way to spend the summer’

    The Breakfast Club and Iceland Is Best star on his love of British punk, the cool of Steve McQueen and how Björn Borg inspired him to calm down

July 2021

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    The dweeb and the hot girl: Matt Hancock’s affair belongs to an 80s movie

    Hadley Freeman
    Who knows, perhaps Hancock’s entire career was just a ploy to entice his university crush

March 2020

  • Kristen Stewart and Jodie Foster in Panic Room.

    Lockdown culture
    From Panic Room to Cabin Fever: films about isolation, to watch in self-isolation

    Our selection of must-see movies, whether you go it alone or hunker down with family or friends

January 2020

  • Emilio Estevez.

    Emilio Estevez: ‘Brat Pack will be on my tombstone’

    The star of The Breakfast Club now has his father Martin Sheen’s looks, a bromance with Alec Baldwin – and sad news for fans of St Elmo’s Fire

February 2019

  • Rachel and Ross in Friends

    Confused? Here’s my guide to Valentine’s Day in the #MeToo era

    Max Liu
    Back in the 90s, I didn’t realise my unrequited advances might be ‘scary’, says freelance writer Max Liu

September 2018

  • Hugh Grant in A Very English Scandal, Michael Jackson in This Is It and Emma Stone in Maniac

    Stream lover
    From Maniac to The Breakfast Club: what to stream in Australia in October

    Plus a Michael Jackson documentary, A-grade sci-fi and an avant-garde film about cinema history borne from buried treasure

August 2018

  • Winona Ryder, second from right, as Veronica Sawyer in Heathers (1988).

    Thanks be to Heathers – a film that helped make me who I am

    Hanna Flint
  • Christian Slater and Winona Ryder

    The legacy of Heathers 30 years on: 'Donald Trump is like a big Heather'

April 2018

  • Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert and Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls.

    The best coming of age films
    Fetch happens: why Mean Girls is the perfect teen movie

  • Teenage dreams: the soulful phenomenon of coming of age films

    The best coming of age films
    'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart

  • The Breakfast Club, 1985. Star Molly Ringwald has called out the film’s director for the dubious sexual politics the film normalised

    Times move pretty fast! Rewatching 80s favourites in the age of #MeToo

  • The Breakfast Club was one of the 80s films that propelled Molly Ringwald to stardom.

    Molly Ringwald says The Breakfast Club is troubling in #MeToo era

December 2016

  • Desert storm … Thelma & Louise.

    National Film Registry picks Thelma & Louise and The Breakfast Club for preservation

    Ridley Scott’s feminist thriller and John Hughes’s 1985 teen flick deemed ‘culturally, historically or aesthetically significant’ by Library of Congress

November 2016

  • ‘We thought the song didn’t suit us. We had delusions of being ultra-hip’ … Simple Minds in the 80s.

    How we made
    Simple Minds: how we made Don't You (Forget About Me)

    Jim Kerr: ‘I did the big la-la-la-la-la ending because I didn’t have any lyrics’

September 2016

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    Is Channing Tatum in a fish tail the feminist dream realised? The jury’s out

    Hadley Freeman
    The current passion for 1980s films reflects what we lack today: films back then were made for adults, not just teenage boys

May 2015

  • Dan Aykroyd Ghostbusters

    The film quiz
    The toughest 80s movie quiz ever

    It was the decade that brought us a giant marshmallow man, a diversely cast Saturday detention, a watermelon-carrying Baby, a kiss between a mother and son of the same age and three men juggling a baby and heroin. Ahead of tomorrow's extract in Weekend from Hadley Freeman's book about 80s movies, here's a really rather tough quiz on the era.

March 2015

  • Fashion icons … Bender, Andrew, Allison, Claire and Brian in The Breakfast Club.

    Breakfast Club at 30: why Bender, Allison, Brian and co are still fashion icons

    The iconic brat-pack movie may be three decades old – but designers still turn to it for inspiration. Here’s why

August 2012

  • Molly Ringwald

    Molly Ringwald: your former teenage crush

    Brat pack sweetheart Molly Ringwald talks to Mark Blackwell about her new novel, jazz and her surreal life since the Breakfast Club days

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