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The Breakfast Club is an intense theatrical film about five 18-year-old high school students in Saturday morning detention, which turns out to be unsupervised. The students come from different backgrounds and move in different cliques within the school. Consequently, they begin detention not knowing each other very well. Boredom and the urge to flirt lead them into conversation. Early on, they challenge each other about the superficial images they present to the outside world. This leads to a deeper discussion of their inner identities and the influence of their parents and teachers. Finally, they bond around a consensus of wanting to escape high school life and adult supervision. St Elmo's Fire is about seven close friends who have just left university, and have chosen to remain close to the campus for the first year after graduation. The safe, pretty campus and their old student pub, St Elmo's, provide familiar, comforting surroundings, as they all take their first steps in the adult world. The meat of the film is an entertaining, and sometimes painful, catalogue of their mistakes and growing pains. These mistakes include heavy drinking and other substance abuse, womanising, sleeping with the boss, chasing an unattainable woman, living in a love triangle, over-spending, letting parents run their lives, or behaving as though they were 10 years older. The friends help each other with the fallout from their various crises. Finally, they discover that part of the solution is to change the comforting habits of their student years, including meeting at St Elmo's. About Last Night is about a young couple and their two slightly older single friends, who live, work and play in Chicago. The young couple are brought together by an intense physical attraction. However, the sacrifices of living together in a small apartment is a strain on both of them. The external forces on their relationship include their busy social life, the availability of other partners, and the sceptical attitude of their respective single best friends. The film is based on a 1970s Mamet play, and retains some of the more liberal attitudes of that decade. The main object of the film is to dissect the modern relationship, in the absence of the traditional marriage bond. Although the couple meet following an intense love-at-first-sight moment in a bar, they initially pretend that they are just `having fun'. The writing is particularly good here, presenting the audience with an early version of `saying all the right things' in the early stages of a modern relationship. The moment comes for them to use the big `L' word. Although they say it almost simultaneously, both indulge in post-match analyses with their friends, in which each feels they were more sincere. The mutual disappointment of this moment is their first serious glitch. It leads to distrust, drifting apart, and separation. The separation gives them time for reflection and personal growth, before mutual attraction pulls them together again. Read full review
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The Breakfast Club (Dir. John Hughes, 1985): Without doubt, John Hughes' The Breakfast Club is one of the greatest teen movies of all-time, if not the best. Without it, we might not have witnessed the phenomenal rise of the 'Brat Pack'; the group of actors synonymous with the teen films of the '80s. They were five teenage students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their High School library. At 7am, they had nothing to say, but by 4pm, they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. To the outside world they were simply the Jock, the Brain, the Criminal, the Princess, and the Kook, but to each other, they would always be the Breakfast Club. The film's title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for detention at 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". (1.75:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, DTS 5.1 & Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround) About Last Night (Dir. Edward Zwick, 1986): Rob Lowe doesn't want to get serious. Demi Moore doesn't want to get used. Together, they're an unforgettable couple in the sexy, contemporary comedy. After drinks at a favourite Chicago hangout, Danny Martin (Lowe) and Debbie Sullivan (Moore) head to Danny's place to indulge in the predictable single's quest - the one-night stand. Their affair is casual, sensual, and supposedly over until something surprising happens. They want to see each other again. It's the start of an intense relationship that irritates Danny's rowdy best friend (James Belushi) and astounds Debbie's cynical buddy/roomie (Elizabeth Perkins), who do everything possible to break them up. But, Danny and Debbie wind up living together, and midst the daily drudge of domestic life, they begin to realise that making love is easy, saying "I love you" more difficult, and being in love the hardest of all. (1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) St. Elmo's Fire (Dir. Joel Schumacher, 1985): Billy: life has changed since school, but has Billy noticed? Wendy: respectable, hardworking and a virgin. Daddy says "marry a nice boy" but she has other ideas! Alec: success, wealth and a wife. He knows what he wants but can he have it? Kevin: what's his secret? Scared of Women? Gay? Or is it something that'll really shock his best friend? Jules: life is one high-powered party. Sex, drugs and really pushing life to the limit. Leslie: she loves her work and she loves her boyfriend...but work's less trouble! Kirbo: a romantic wrestling with reality, chasing the girl of his dreams. This is the story of a tightly-knit group of college graduates who must now confront, as individuals, all the issues of life after college in the 1980s. They must make tough decisions regarding their careers and relationships that will shape a lifetime and cause conflicts within their friendships. This is an eighties classic (note the fantastic Brat Pack cast!), so a expect to laugh, cry and go through it all with the characters. This is the Breakfast Club of college graduates.Read full review
These are some of my most favourite films ever. You really can not beat the story in St elmos fire. When i look back I feel like I was being told this is how your life is going to be just like jules!!! About last night is a brillent funny comedy about two people wanting different things......and failing, as usual. A total must see.
If you're a fan of the all original Brat Pack & their movies, then this is a must for your collection!
I like the fact that there are three films for the price of one. Decided to buy these films as I have loved them since I was a teenager and watching them again brought back memories!
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