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The Breakfast Club
Simple Minds’s international hit ” Don’t You (Forget About Me)” is played in the opening and closing credits.
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Pretty in Pink
Simple Minds
The film’s title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff, for detention, at New Trier High School, the school attended by the son of one of John Hughes’ friends. Thus, those who were sent to detention were designated members of “The Breakfast Club “.
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Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club . The letter is the focal point of the film, as it demonstrates and illustrates the changes the students undergo during the course of the day; their attitudes and perspectives have changed and are now completely different. The movie ends as the characters leave detention.
The Breakfast Club
In the film, Ringwald plays the prototypical teenage girl from the “wrong side of town” who falls for the cool rich kid (McCarthy) but also strings along her nerdy best friend (Cryer). But during a recent interview, Deutch told us that they originally had an ending that test audiences hated. So, Hughes wasn’t perfect?
The idea of the song was, ‘ Pretty In Pink ‘ as a metaphor for being naked. The song, to me, was actually about a girl who sleeps around a lot and thinks that she’s wanted and in demand and clever and beautiful, but people are talking about her behind her back.
This seems such an archetypal John Hughes movie that it’s easy to forget it was actually directed by Howard Deutch, until you remember that none of it was filmed in Chicago. Nominally set in the Windy City’s northwestern suburb, ‘Elgin, Illinois’, the film was made entirely around Los Angeles .