Breakfast Club 30th Anniversary

“We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.”

-Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez), The Breakfast Club

A Classic Returns

Only one film has managed to perfectly capture the angst-ridden, awkward stages of high school and that film is The Breakfast Club. This year the film celebrates its 30th anniversary and Aksarben Cinema will be screening the classic comedy in honor of the special anniversary.

In anticipation of the film’s re-release we thought it would also be fun to look back down memory lane and dig out some trivia treasure from the teen comedy classic.

Trivia Treasure

1.     Judd Nelson was nearly fired because of his negative attitude toward Molly Ringwald off camera. It was Paul Gleason who convinced director John Hughes not to. Gleason’s reason? He thought that Nelson was a great actor and was simply trying to stay in character at all times.

2.     The scene in the library where the characters all bare their souls was improvised. John Hughes directed them to ad-lib their lines. Now we’re left with one of the most honest, emotional scenes in cinematic history.

3.     Molly Ringwald was originally asked to play Allison but wanted to play Claire, she eventually convinced John Hughes and the studio and was given the part.

4.     The movie was ranked #1 for Entertaiment Weekly's 50 Best High School Movies (2006).

5.     It was originally suggested that there would be several sequels to The Breakfast Club, occurring every ten years, in which The Breakfast Club would get back together. Can you imagine a 1995, 2005, and 2015 The Breakfast Club?

Detail on the Screening

The film will be screened on both March 26 & March 31 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available online or at the box office. Make sure you get them sooner rather than later, because we don’t want you to miss out on this opportunity to revisit the fated detention room where an unlikely group befriended one another.

Please join Aksarben Cinema for either your first viewing of this 80s classic or watch it for the hundredth time in the comfort of Omaha’s favorite movie theatre. For more information on this event and many others, visit Aksarben Cinema’s website or Facebook page. See you at the movies!