I detest The Breakfast Club because it seems to subtly suggest replacing individuality with conformity is the path to acceptance. Horrible message. I say the dead float with the current and only the living can swim against the stream. Me, I like living.
I always hated this movie too. You lock a bunch of kids who hate each other in a room for the day & they come out friends? If I had a nickel for everytime my teachers tried that twisted logic.
The sad part is, the teachers in special class made us watch this on movie day, and even they realized how stupid it was.
I think the critics & thirty-somethings of the day identified with this movie more than teenagers did.