Breakfast Club

Detention room drama

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film about five high school students from different social groups—a jock, a nerd, a rebel, a princess, and a basket case—who bond during Saturday detention.

The title has become shorthand for unlikely alliances across social boundaries: It was a real breakfast club of personalities.

A breakfast club can also mean any regular morning gathering: Our running group is basically a breakfast club.

Related

John Hughes · Molly Ringwald · Saturday · misfit · social outcast · jock · princess · brain · criminal · basket case · Claire · essay · locker · hallway · janitor · coming-of-age · rebellion · stereotype

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Opposites
film tone/generation

Breakfast ClubTransformers

Franchise about morphing robots

American Pie · Sharknado · Twilight · High School Musical · Mean Girls

social dynamics

Breakfast ClubCarrie

Feminine given name

Heathers · Mean Girls · Gossip Girl · clique · in-crowd

setting/confinement

Breakfast ClubAmerican Graffiti

1962 California youth film

Dazed and Confused · Stand By Me · The Goonies · Easy Rider · National Lampoon's Vacation

Family

breakfast, club, break, fast, breaks, breaking, broken, fasts, fasting

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG