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The Breakfast Club
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #828
- IMDb #534
- Google retired #1397
- Rotten Tomatoes #573
- Metacritic #1159
- Letterboxd #1217
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1364
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #303
- Metacritic Critics #1862
- Metacritic Audience #324
- Criticker #865
- Douban #754
- Kinopoisk #308
- AlloCiné #907
- Trakt #426
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Lowest is Criticker on 59, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 92.
See the most agreed on films →Five high school students from different social cliques—a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal—are forced to spend a Saturday in detention together. Under the watchful eye of a authoritarian principal, they reluctantly break down their stereotypes and discover they are not so different.
Details
- Director
- John Hughes
- Writer
- John Hughes
- Released
- 15 February 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $51.5M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Silver Bucket of Excellence Award 1985 | — | Anthony Michael Hall Judd Nelson Paul Gleason Molly Ringwald Ally Sheedy | Winner |
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