Breakfast Club was very pandering & kissup (considering it was coming from a writer old enough to be the characters' dad). I remember taking the one-room play concept at face value, right up to the narration:
"We were forced to serve detention ..."
(OK, good concept)
"... A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, & a criminal ..."
(Good, good, got that Young Adult novel vibe going)
"... Because YOU, the older generation, see us that way & force us into these roles--"
And that's when it's time for this viewer to head to the bar for a good, stiff drink.
Still, I guess the Hughes teen-angst morality plays were generational milestones.
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