‘The Breakfast Club’ is a teen movie where 5 teenagers get detention on a Saturday and are locked in the school library for 8 hours. From 8am until 4pm. You have each one of the stereo types of an American high school. You have, Claire, the spoilt-princess, Andrew, the school jock, john the badly behaved, rude boy who comes across at first as not having any feelings. Brian is the nerd, the brainy boy who is in the physics, maths and many more academic clubs and lastly Allison, who is a compulsive liar and doesn’t speak at all in the first half of the film. Throughout the movie you learn a lot about the characters. They all have something in common, at first they deny these factors but as the movie progresses they become much more open and tell each other about their home life and why it is so bad. It all comes down to the parents. The principal is a nasty, bully who takes his power of authority to another level. He threatens John secretly and tells him no one will believe him, hes alone and who would take his word over his. The principal’s nasty behavior brings the students together, they all become very interested in John and why his behavior is like it is.
Teen movies usually use problems that teenagers in the audience will face, this is to help them relate to the characters and become emotionally involved. Conflict with parents is a common factor in a teen film but instead of presenting it in a very serious way there is humor throughout the film but they still get their points across, which brings the audience emotionally attached. This is a very cliché teen movie although it was instrumental in setting the clichés. They include illegal substances, such as marijuana but there is no peer pressure in the characters taking part in it, they join in on their own. Although the idea of virginity was made very pressured. Claire the princess and prom queen was repeatedly taunted about whether she was or not.
This is John, the misunderstood teenager. 
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