What was The Breakfast Club?

Answer 1

Brian The brain :brought a flair gun to school and it went off in his locker, he was going to try and committee suicide

Andrew The the athlete :taped someones buns together, to try and prove to his dad he could be like him.

Clair The princess ditched class to go shopping

Allison The basket-case: just didn't have anything else to do XD

Bender the criminal: pulled the fire alarm, since he wanted attention since he gets none at home.

Answer 2

The Breakfast Club is the name that Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall's character) signs at the end of the group's essay following their Saturday morning detention.

Possible reasons:

1. The characters all served a Saturday school detention, which began around six or seven o'clock in the morning - breakfast time...well, at least for early risers.

2. The characters all came from different social cliques and stereotypes (Andrew was the jock, Allison the outsider, Bender the troublemaker, Brian the nerd, and Claire the snob/princess). During the course of the film, we observe all five students break through their clique/stereotype and discover that when one's 'title-status' is stripped away, they're not much different from one another. Perhaps Brian felt the need to name the essay "The Breakfast Club" because of this very reason...that we're really all just members of the same 'club'...that is, we're all just people.

Answer 3

Brian Nigro wrote a review for christiananswers.net that included the following:

The movie was rated "R" in 1985 for pervasive swearing and infrequent sexual innuendo. (I'd estimate the objectionable phrases clock in at a few dozen.) Let me also say that the content seems a bit mild by current standards. It's hardly as offensive, for instance, as the PG-rated "Michael" or PG-13 rated "Austin Powers".

The review can be found at http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/pre2000/rvu-brkfstclub.html .

However, it should be noted that while the subject matter might seem mild enough to warrant merely a PG-13 rating, by MPAA guidelines, any movie that uses the "F word" more than once automatically warrants an R rating, unless a 2/3 majority votes that in the context of the movie it fits PG-13 standards.

From the MPAA website:

"A motion picture's single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual context."

(http://www.mpaa.org/FlmRat_Ratings.asp)

The character 'Bender' uses the word heavily throughout the movie, and other characters use the word several times as well. Therefore, regardless of the fact MPAA rating boards might be more lenient today about the sexual innuendo, by language guidelines it would still be rated 'R'.

Answer 4

The movie "The Breakfast Club" (1985) was a dramatic comedy directed by John Hughes. It is about 5 high school students from diverse backgrounds who are all sentenced to a Saturday in detention, as overseen by an arrogant assistant principal.

The teen stars were members of the so-called Brat Pack: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall.

Answer 5

It's called The Breakfast Club because the kids meet for early morning detention.

When I was in high school, the principal's assistant would post notices for morning detention that said, "This week's meeting of The Breakfast Club will take place in Room 201" or wherever it was supposed to be that week.