One Streamer Will Soon Forget About a Brat Pack Classic When Class Is Adjourned at the End of the Month

Class is almost dismissed for The Breakfast Club, as the iconic John Hughes-helmed film will soon be departing for streaming. To avoid a lengthy detention sentence, you’ll want to tune into Peacock ahead of October 1 to welcome key members of the Brat Pack into your own home for the movie’s 40th (that’s right) anniversary. Featuring an ensemble that included some of the biggest young names of the time, including Molly Ringwald (Pretty in Pink), Emilio Estevez (St. Elmo’s Fire), Anthony Michael Hall (Sixteen Candles), Judd Nelson (New Jack City), Ally Sheedy (WarGames), and Paul Gleason (Trading Places) as the movie’s primary adult, The Breakfast Club will be a forever classic that showed what could happen if we all just got along.

In the film, a group of students from various backgrounds have been sentenced to a Saturday of detention. There’s the jock Andrew Clark (Estevez), the brainy Brian Johnson (Hall), bad boy John Bender (Nelson), preppy girl Claire Standish (Ringwald) and outsider Allison Reynolds (Sheedy). Each of the characters has done one thing or another that has forced them to miss out on a weekend day and spend their time instead trapped under the watchful eye of the omnipresent vice principal, Richard Vernon (Gleason). Despite being from completely different high school cliques, the group — hesitant at first — ends up forming an unbreakable bond that forever locks them together as The Breakfast Club.

Why ‘The Breakfast Club’ Is Considered a Classic

Of all the Brat Pack movies of the ‘80s, The Breakfast Club is one that stands out as a top favorite. So what made it standout against the backdrop of 1985, like Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II? According to Nelson, who joined several cast mates during a 40th anniversary panel earlier this year at MegaCon Orlando,

“I mean we knew that we were filming something that was unique. There were no sex scenes, no sensational moments. We knew it was basically minors sitting around talking. Was that gonna be something that you would want to see? We all got the script. We like the script, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s gonna be a good movie — we hope it is.”

While the cast and creative team backing The Breakfast Club may have been nervous at the time, their butterflies quickly dissipated by the time the film arrived in cinemas, with audiences flocking to the off-beat and one-of-a-kind storytelling that the feature provided.

Head over to Peacock before October 1 to stream The Breakfast Club.