#The breakfast club 1985 full movie movie#
"Hollywood at that time, and still, to a great extent, was very much controlled by the white, straight, male perspective and that movie absolutely was. It's a completely different time now than it was then it would be a completely different movie – absolutely," she says. "There would be a more diverse cast and there would be more political issues, cultural issues addressed. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall in the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club "They built the whole set in there and I remember where we hung out, I remember the crew, I remember Judd playing basketball in a gym that was off to the side, where we filmed running through the halls."īut for all its staying power, Sheedy is also aware that the film is very much a product of its time, and would look different if it were made today. The shoot, in an abandoned high school in Hughes's native Illinois, took the stars miles away from the hubbub of Hollywood fame. I was definitely not thinking that at all, there is no perspective when it's happening at the moment." "I don't think anybody figures that out until a little bit later, or at least I didn't. It didn't seem that it was a particular moment in the culture."Įven the theme music was hugely popular, Simple Minds' anthemic Don't You Forget about me providing the Scots with a US number one and staying in the UK charts for 65 weeks.
"It just seemed like his movies were just successful at that time. "Nobody had any perspective on it then," says Sheedy, who is now 57. Sheedy's role in The Breakfast Club, opposite Hughes's frequent star Molly Ringwald, as well as Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall, put her right at the centre of popular culture.Īlly Sheedy played Allison Reynolds, the so-called 'basket case', in The Breakfast Club His hot streak included National Lampoon's Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck and then Home Alone in 1990. It's hard to overstate how big the films written by John Hughes were in the 1980s. "But it's nice to have something that I worked on that still feels relevant in some way." They identify with a time of their life, they actually relate to it, who knew that was going to happen? "As years have gone by people still love the movie so much. "It is surprising," admits Ally Sheedy, who played Allison Reynolds, the so-called "basket case". While 35 years may have passed, the story about dismissing people as stereotypes, and then realising you have more in common than you first thought, still seems to ring true. The movie about five high school students – "a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal" – stuck together in the school library in detention on a Saturday is still beloved by audiences, some of whom weren't even alive when it was released in 1985. ONLY a handful of films from the 1980s have the same legacy as The Breakfast Club.
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