John Hughes High School Yearbook (2008)

When it came to ’80s teen life, John Hughes wrote the book. Then adapted the book into a screenplay, produced it, directed it and picked the soundtrack. First up in this collection is The Breakfast Club. Ignore the fact that the fashions, slang and music are now museum pieces and there’s still something fresh-faced and sweetly sparky about Hughes’ tale of mismatched teens (“A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal...”) saddled with Saturday morning detention. Mawkish sentiment runs like a river through the movie, but Hughes’ ear for real teen speak and grasp of full-throated comedy just about sees it through.

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