The Breakfast Club (1985): 20 Things You Never Knew!

[@vanderdore]

Yes. So much yes. 💜

[@stuart.whiting]

Amazing film and great video covering it. Emilio and Ally are passable as high schoolers even though they were well into their 20's, but you can't hide that Judd looks way too old for the part. I'll just assume Bender has failed his senior year 6 years running 🤣

[@angelesantana9413]

I kind of agree with you on Judd Nelson looking too old to play high schooler "John Bender". However, I remember back when I was in High School, I had quite a few male classmates who looked too old to be in High School! Lol! 😇😂👍🏻

[@angelesantana9413]

And they were all legitimate HS students who were the same age as me

[@bradellis8399]

He failed at least six times lol 😂

[@DonaldFraser-c9v]

This was the classic movie of its time and I loved it, with an excellent cast of actors, music, and funny scenes all rolled into one great storyline. This film has to be somewhere in my all time top 10. I just loved Molly Ringwald and the character she played in this movie. All the other characters just made this a must see early 80s movie.

[@julesnorton2138]

my favourite movie.....and the greatest theme song....The Breakfast Club has something for everyone ❤❤❤❤

[@martinnaylor]

Absolutely love the Breakfast Club.

[@ChristopherM720]

I was a high school student and a wrestler when this came out...I can vouch for how much everyone at school loved this movie and found a character they identified with on w personal level. While Ferris Bueler is the best of the 80s high school movies (and the only one rewatchable today), this was the most "real" of the movies.

[@christinacolasanto530]

Strangely nobody ever talks about the dark easter egg in the begining of the movie: the carving that reads "I DONT LIKE MONDAYS" That was a refferant to a 1970s female school shooter....(when caught she said those words)😮

[@AT-sd9qq]

thanks for the trivia, I never knew about this shooting or the song.

[@bartpickford1836]

Such a compelling movie

[@Superchick2]

I had heard most of those filming factoids already, but they were still fascinating to re-hash.

[@rockywatchesmovies]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@eauhomme]

0:27 The locker where Brian's (Anthony Michael Hall) flare gun goes off. 0:50 "I Don't Like Mondays" was the quote by school shooter Brenda Spencer in 1978, the first major school shooting of modern times. The quote ended up being used in a Boomtown Rats song. The whole quote, when asked why she did it, was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."

[@DodoTees]

John Hughes was a hometown boy, living a good chunk of his formative years in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, only a handful of miles from our design studio.

[@Peter-bu6ld]

The Production Supervisor for the film was Richard Hashimoto. In the opening, introductory scenes (and in this video at the 7:57 mark), there is a name plate on the desk with the name of Guidance Counselor Dr. R. Hashimoto.

[@chriskowalczyk8851]

The Breakfast Club was filmed in Des Plaines, IL. It was formerly Maine North High School. It is now houses the Illinois State Police

[@ChristopherM720]

My main hearthstone of the 80s...Ally Sheedy. War Games, Oxford Blues, B Club, Short Circuit. She's 8 years older than me which is why she could play such a diversity of roles in terms of age but...totally my favorite actress of the decade. And she crushed it on PYSCH when she played the mentally deranged faux-serial killer, playing off some of her iconic 80s roles, especially the weirdo girl of the Breakfast Club.

[@eauhomme]

If you haven't seen it, look up "Bad Boys", starring Sean Penn with Ally Sheedy, Esai Morales and Clancy Brown (from Shawshank Redemption). Sheedy in her first role plays Penn's girlfriend. It is a drama where Penn is a juvenile delinquent who accidentally kills a kid while running from police and gets sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison. The kid's brother attacks Sheedy in order to get arrested and sent to the same facility so he can take revenge. It's somewhat violent but not gratuitously so, and is very well done.

[@angelesantana9413]

Thank you Rocky for making a great, totally awesome Video! This was so refreshing, original ,educational and entertaining. I love "The Breakfast Club"!!! I am so sick and tired of all the other videos that are AI generated. Don't you forget about me, don't you forget about me 🎤👨🏻‍🎤🎸🔥🎹🥁🎵✊🏻🎵 Thank you and God bless you! 😇😃🤗🙏🏻💖✝️

[@rockywatchesmovies]

I appreciate that!

[@D-Fens_1632]

And do you think Carl initiated an investigation over the broken glass door and missing sections of drop ceiling? That would cost money to fix, people would have questions. I bet the entire gang got detention the following week for refusing to rat. Probably spent the better part of the year in detention.

[@D-Fens_1632]

One thing nobody ever mentions is that sheets of plywood are placed only in the front row of desks purely for plot convenience. And this really could have spun into 8 other movies, god only knows what kind of trouble Bender got into over those 8 Saturdays.

[@seabreeze9296]

so taking into account what we learned from #9 and #10.... Anthony Michael Hall grew several inches in One day. LOL

[@emeeses1836]

It's not David "Bau-ee." It's Boh-ee.

[@a.k.strigidae]

Billy Idol technically didn’t cover it. He wrote the song.

[@rockywatchesmovies]

It was written by Steve Schiff and Keith Forsey

[@a.k.strigidae]

@@rockywatchesmoviesyou are right I did some research. I could have swore it was some even Simple Minds singer said or was on pop up video, But there is a lot of confusion out there about it. The writer did work with Billy Idol prior to the movie, and maybe was in a Billy Idol frame of mind when he wrote it. Regardless what they say now, none of the back and forth in the confusion actually supports it was written for Simple Minds. It sounded like a cop out the one place it was said. I was wrong I’m sorry.

[@catherinehogan8628]

Where does Billy Idol come Into it. I've seen it a million times

[@McGrathPete]

Just thought I’d add my wife grew up living next door to Billy Idol in the 70’s and into the early 80’s, when he was at home with his parents. 😅

[@sstrick500]

I haven't watched this since the VHS rental days of the late 80's. I liked it, but it was just too slow and mundane for me. Maybe too "mature" for my 14yr old self.

[@airt698]

It's definitely not that re-watchable.

[@BizzayLady]

Watch it now

[@biblehistoryscience3530]

Is that a Confederate Flag @3:13 ???

[@ToroBobebe]

Georgia flag.

[@biblehistoryscience3530]

@ToroBobebe thx

[@chrismckenna5361]

If they filmed sequentially in one day, how did Anthony Michael hall grow?

[@kenyattaclay7666]

He didn’t say they filmed it in one day. He said because the movie takes place in one day they filmed it in sequential order.

[@Legoisjustsogood]

Like the previus comment said they didn't fillm it in one day, and according to a Google search I did they began filming the movie on March 28 1984 and ended in filming May 1984.

[@veronicafinocchi9550]

Most movies aren't filmed in order because of logistics. This was as it takes place in one site. Over two months AMH managed to grow during filming, as he was the youngest.

[@jeffjohnson1302]

Stupid movie