ArtGodalming
The Breakfast Club
Tue 10 May
|Borough Hall, Godalming
Five high school students (a nerd, jock, prom queen, delinquent, and loner) are thrown together for Saturday detention and discover they have more in common than they thought. Classic coming of age film set against 1980’s pop culture.
Time & Location
10 May 2022, 19:15
Borough Hall, Godalming, 3 Bridge St, Godalming GU7 1HY, UK
About the Event
Film Notes
A rag-tag bunch of unruly kids are ordered into school on a Saturday for an extra special morning detention. Defiant at first, they eventually find a camaraderie when the principal buggers off and leaves them to entertain themselves.
“When the causes of the Decline Of Western Civilization are finally writ, Hollywood will surely have to answer why it turned over one of man’s most significant art forms to the self-gratification of high-schoolers...” Industry rag Variety didn’t so much greet The Breakfast Club with open arms as crunch it into an armpit-lock and squeeze until the jerking stopped. (see Variety review below)
In retrospect, this violent reaction to such a vanilla-flavoured piece of cinema reads like a badly informed dad’s rants. Or maybe an allergic reaction to Emilio Estevez’s dancing. Variety was cruel at the time but, over 20 years on, has time been cruel to the Club? In the spirit of adolescent indecision,…