We're looking back at some surprising facts about the film. 1. One of The Breakfast Club's key scenes was improvised. The film’s gut-wrenching heart-to-heart, where all five kids spill deep ...

The five eclectic members of “The Breakfast Club” — “a brain, an athlete, a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal” — are the blueprint for Hollywood’s American high school.

The film was Hughes’ second movie, after “Sixteen Candles,” which served as a sort of test run for “The Breakfast Club,” which was one of the first teen movies that was more character-based rather ...