The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The film tells the story of five teenagers from different high school cliques who serve a Saturday detention overseen by their authoritarian vice-principal. The Breakfast Club premiered in Los Angeles on February 7, 1985, and was theatrically released by Universal Pictures on February 15, 1985. It grossed $51.5 million against a $1 million budget, and earned acclaim from critics, who consider it to be one of Hughes's most memorable and recognizable works. The media subsequently referred to the film's five main actors as members of a group called the "Brat Pack". In 2015, the film was digitally remastered and was re-screened in 430 theaters in celebration of its 30th anniversary. In 2016, The Breakfast Club was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at Shermer High School report at 7:00 a.m. for an all-day detention: socially awkward Brian Johnson, volatile wrestler Andrew Clark, shy loner Allison Reynolds, popular snob Claire Standish, and rebellious delinquent John Bender. In voiceover, the five are described respectively as "a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal". They gather in the school library, where Vice Principal Richard Vernon warns them not to talk, move from their seats, or sleep until they are released at 4:00 p.m.; he assigns them a thousand-word essay, in which each must describe "who you think you are". He leaves, returning only occasionally to check on and reprimand them. John ignores the rules and spends most of his time bullying or harassing Claire, Brian, and Andrew. Having a completely hostile relationship with the principal, John defiantly talks back to and insults Vernon, which results in John receiving eight weekends' worth of additional detention. Shortly after, the five sneak out of the library to retrieve John's marijuana stash. When they see Vernon is returning to the library, John deliberately gets caught while the others sneak back in. John is locked in a storage closet as punishment, but he escapes and returns to the library by crawling through the ceiling panels then falling through them into the library. Vernon investigates and the