I worked at the Westin Hotel at the time the whole cast stayed with us in Rosemont, Illinois, I was a concierge with 3 other girls. I was 19 and saw a lot of stuff I could gossip about but won’t . I received a whopping $350.00 tip after the production left town.That was a lot of money back then! Still stuck in Illinois working in finance. So I know after all these years I can’t afford to live in my home, California❤️

Ally Sheedy was in home alone 2 working in the front desk at the airport and told Kevin, that's New York sir.

The Breakfast Club is one of my all time favorite movies. Excellent story and cast. Outstanding acting. I have seen it numerous times and I also own the DVD. I'll never stop watching it.

The Breakfast Club was the Masterpiece of a flick in 1985. I miss movies made like this. Thank You for this Video!!!!!!

I graduated in 1987 and went to Illinois State University. Lots of my college friends were from Des Plaines and had both John Hughes n John Wayne Gacy stories. I went into advertising in STL and one of my copywriters worked with John Hughes in Chicago at the same agency saying he really didn’t like advertising. My writer created the Hamburger Helper 🤚 hand!!

All these "problems" with the movie really aren't problems

I find it interesting how young people these days get so offended by this movie but times have changed so it’s good to stay open minded like a lot of people do lol but this movie is still genius regardless of genre’…great video thanks for sharing 👍

You're absolutely right. I graduated from high-school in 1984 and lived this. I was never in detention but in trouble yes. This movie is one of my favorite. Its Smithsonian type accurate.

Love, love, love this film. Must have watched this at least 30 times. Again another great video which again I have learnt so much more than where it was filmed. Thank you Justin ❤️

Hi, I’m an actual person who attended high school in the 80’s. This movie depicted life in that era pretty accurately. But I’d have to say the main things that were different back then was nobody was comparing or emulating celebs or social media influencers and we were pretty busy working on school work, after school jobs, actually talking to each other and doing things outdoors. And while I’m sure students were stereotyped back then, I don’t remember anybody being triggered or woke or being so sensitive to every perceived slight towards them. I feel like we were a lot more mature, resilient and in the grand scheme didn’t really give a big crap what others thought of us. I feel bad for kids today who are so dependent on their phone screens and living up to social media standards.

Fantastic video mate. I had a similar school experience back in the mid 80's - im a mixed race guy who went to an inner city school in the u.k with kids from all corners of the world and every colour. I then moved out to a more suburban school with a 97% white population, and even though it was in the uk, we totally related to the Breakfast Club - we were the same age, dressed similar, and we already listened to all that 80s New Wave Music. BC is a very perceptive and heartfelt snapshot of 80s teen life - warts and all, regardless of colour/gender because we ALL have the same basic fears and we ALL want to belong at that age. I cant speak for the U.S, but schools generally are a lot more diverse now over here, but the truths of John Hughes films are the same. RIP John, and thanks for your understanding and empathy for us 80s kids 🙏

I remember watching this movie as a 14 year old and loved it so much that I purposely tried to get saturday detention, instead I got regular detention during the weekday :P they didnt allow us to talk and just do homework or read a book.

Emilio Estevez was the only member of his family to not change his name.

Wow, the transformation Judd Nelson did for this roll is superb!

Great video! Thank you for taking us inside the building! I'm a huge fan of The Breakfast Club movie that's seen and analyzed it literally hundreds of times since I first saw it back in the 80's at a drive in theater in Los Angeles, and I really don't see why people are trying to cancel it. If you think about it, Anthony Michael Hall's character Brian and Ally Sheedy's "Allison, The Basket Case" are the queers in the film, as I totally relate to them both the most because i myself was a basket case child, that initially grew up very nerd appearing, introverted, shy and only knowing I was gay, until I turned 27 (I'm now 46) when I realized I'm attracted to women also but not as much as men who I'm more interested in. If you consider how Anthony Michael Hall is in that interview clip dressed Androgenous as David Bowie did during that era and the way he speaks in real life, Brian definitely is the gay character. Allison was Emo before it became a thing, and it can be read as a subtext that she was really bisexual or pansexual, both attracted to Claire who transformed her and to Emilio's character Andrew who she hooked up with. Furthermore, if you think about it, Claire, Bender, and Andrew also could be closeted both gay and bisexual characters who haven't yet come accepted themselves fully, mostly extroverted (Bender and Claire who end up hooking up), but subtly introverted (Andrew, the Jock). Every student character in the film can be seen as falling somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, rebels and badasses in their own right that had home life issues which fed into the crimes they committed and led them to detention which reveals they share allot in common which unites them as friends and potential love interests. Therefore, the only thing this film is guilty of is not representing anyone that isn't Caucasian. But given that at least 3 cast members were pre selected for this film, this was filmed in 1984 and set in the suburbs of Illinois and we're only seeing a fraction of the students that attended that school (and Carl the janitor and the Principal aren't stereotypically portrayed by black actors), "The Breakfast Club" is therefore a product of it's time, casting convenience, it represents everyone uniquely, and really can't be seen as racist or prejudice.

I live in Des Plaines IL. I turned 59 on May 4th. I loved this movie. My niece is 23. I asked her if it is still the case that high school experience is the same as far as the different groups. She said it still rings true.

John Hughes attended Glenbrook North High School (located in Northbrook, Illinois) and graduated in 1969, a year before me. Interestingly, the village of Northbrook was originally named Shermerville. That may have been where he got the fictional name of Shermer.

That's the way High School was in the 1980's!!!! This is my FAV Movie of ALL TIME!!!! Excellent Review! Shame you couldn't stay in the High School Longer!!

Excellent work, a very thorough presentation of the many aspects of our beloved movie, The Breakfast Club! Thank you sir!

i have video from THE JOHN HUGES RETROSPECTIVE i think it was filmed in 2004. these two guys get a sneak peak into the building. it also have lots of other Hughes filming location footage

I went took a picture there right before news year, then I took my daughter out to the home alone house , the shameless house . It was such a awesome time and my daughter loves 80s movies now

Ferris Bueller lecture hall scene was filmed here too!

Another great video Justin!!! This movie and "Pretty In Pink" were my absolute favorite John Hughes films!!! Can't wait for your next post...keep up the AWESOMENESS...LOL!!!

Great video! Can’t believe you got inside. I haven’t seen anyone be able to get inside

Justin , Keep making videos like this and your viewership will blow up. A lot of videos on movies like this on KZfaq ,but you go the extra step. Dynamite work !! 14:35 Trading Spaces ?

Excellent video!! I couldn't stop watching!

I really enjoyed this. All the info you included. So many of us identified with this movie back then. I’m so glad this movie shows other generations what assholes some teachers were to us. And what they got away with. Not all teachers behaved badly. But we understood, they were running our lives, completely. And there was no negotiating that in that era. To make your own choices like what channel TV station you watched li, or to be allowed to speak up and give an opinion on something, you left home. And it’s why 80’s kids left home early, most at 18. I left home at 17 and never returned. Some of us got kicked out at 18. U were often not allowed to move back home. Parents then saw that as doing you a favour, so u could learn to stand on your own 2 feet. Irrespective of whether u actually had a job somewhere to stay, or not. Usually, There was no careful launching your child into adulthood in the 80’s as there is today. You were expected to enrol yourself into university, a technical skill, pay for driving lessons yourself. I’m astounded how kids today are over cared for. How do they survive in the real world? We had adult skills very early. Some of us didn’t make it, cause we were out in the world, completely naive learning as we went.

Awesome thank you for sharing this !

The Simple Minds song “Don’t you forget about me” was the only song in their collection they didn’t write themselves. It was purpose written for them and the movie.

My favorite movie of all time. Nothing else sums up teenage life in one (rather bland) setting. Yet another fabulous video, Justin!

Kids could smoke weed in the library in the 80s.

3 o clock high took place entirely in a HS setting. thats a great movie to do a video on

How do people get offended by this movie

This is too nostalgic for me.growing up, in the 80's those days where unique for everyone who really enjoy the fashion, the music!!! And life. Being in situation similar to it; some of my friends are not among us, but those days were amazing they always in my mind. I guess it happens to anyone who cares of others. Thanks for this special video about this great film!!! Love the 80's forever!!!

This was fab! x

Such a great video thanks!

I love that movie and every high school has these kids.

Very nice video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.

Great video! Thanks!

LOVED this movie!!!

Thank you for doing this video

this is awesome..thank you

One of my favorite movies , brings back memories of that time. I agree not diverse at all and full of crazy dialogue but sadly so 80s. Great video TY

Absolutely love that movie. Always will ❤️

Great video!! ❤

Great video

Awesome video. Totally off topic, but I remember Des Plaines Ill for two other major news stories. The crash of American Airlines flight 191 at O' Hare Airport, and the location of John Wayne Gacy's house. When you say Des Plaines is a suburb of Chicago, how big of a city or town is it? Is it close to where "The Breakfast Club" was filmed at? And did you visit either place when you filmed it? I know its a much more macabre subject than what this video is related to, but I was just wondering lol.

Nice job! Do you have any vids on the Planet Of The Apes?

If I'm right the front of the high school for Ferris Bueller was shot at the same location.

Paul Gleason was a cop in die hard, partnering with Carl Winslow.

There's a commemorative plaque on the wall in one of the hallways regarding the filming of the Breakfast Club. One of the other KZfaq personalities was able to gain access to most of the building, might have been Adam The Woo....can't remember for sure.

Slight Correction on data - Actress Ally Sheedy was 23 year - shes born 1962 / Moly Ringwold born 1968 was 17 when filming Breakfast Club / Anthony Michael Hall was 16 years old .

It shouldn't get remade it's a masterpiece yes that's how the 80s was just like the 50s and 60s and 70s were different I will say this that's how the 80s was but in my opinion the 80s was easy things change but look at society now I think it's way worse the things they are allowing schools are still like this Just in a different way there's still jocks there's still the smart kids there is still the burn outs as they called them back them and there is still the rich stuck up kids that hasn't changed it's just a different time

Those where the good times "innocence reigned" more so than now "disturbed innocence" "identity confusion"! No matter what anyone says now it is all psychological!

It’s crazy to believe that John Hughes was only a month older than my uncle since they were born the same year but one month apart.

who had the role of the parent picking Brian johnson up , at the end? I had a coat very similar to Mrs. Johnson's.

I’ve already made a comment, but would like to commend Justin on showing clips relevant to the subject he’s talking about, and I’ve seen other shots of the outside of the “school” but God bless Justin for turning around and showing across the street. Drives me crazy when shots are zoomed in on the subject but we viewers have no reference point. Don’t know if that makes sense. ETA: I about choked when you showed your play ticket stub and where you went to HS! 😂

Love that building and love the film. What a thrill to see this so close up. Thank you mate.

Your videos are excellent! More please and keep up the great work👍👌🔥

THANK YOU about the silly makeover! Like wth? You wanna go from sticking out to boring...? She was never that extreme to begin with. Oh, heavy eye liner, my goodness. seems like such a fun trip, good for you. :)

A think it was a gnostic tale, which is why it was set in a library, which represents knowledge. I noticed that Judd played the destroyer, like a Lucifer character that antagonised and questioned but was hidden from the teacher under the desk - who represented the demiurge. So a Genesis type story but a gnostic version as through knowledge of self rather than obedience they found redemption. Fist of defiance and light of liberation - mimicking the statue of liberty.

Farris Bueller's Day Off and also the interior of the house from Home Alone was built in this HS's gymnasium.

I wonder if the library is still inside the Police Station there?

Trading places next?

while the movie was in the theaters I was able to walk around inside the building.

How can you not have your phone charged at such a time?

Shermerville is original name for Northbrook Illinois.Where John Hughes grew up and went to school.

These students learn something, but not from their books.

“I don’t wanna blow my ride”.

I love The Breakfast Club movie and Ms. Molly Ringwald is still the Queen. Thank you for sharing this video

1:25 Obvious one-location movie, in fact with 95%+ taking place in one room in the movie, "Twelve Angry Men". The entire movie takes place at a courthouse, with almost all of it in the jury room. There is a brief intro in the courtroom, a brief period in a restroom where jurors are talking, and an outro where two jurors exchange names. Despite the minimal location, it is a great movie.

he wrote those scrips FAST!

I believe that Alfred Hitchcocks movie 🎬 Rear Window with Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart was filmed in one room.🤔 one place.

1:38 Uncle Buck may have used this site....wait I think that was the old New Trier school near Loyola Academy

Omg Jim Carrey? That would’ve been interesting. But Judds the only Bender.

18:36 Let the record show. You can record ALL public areas of public buildings. Permission from your government is not required.

14:36 *Trading Places

Kids spending Saturday detention for doing bad things at school.

You pronounced Des Plaines correctly. I lived in Chicago, grew up there. I saw this the Saturday after it premiered (2/16/85) at Norridge theaters. Norridge was one of the first multiplex theaters in the area. They had 9 screens which was insane compared to the Roy Rogers or Patio Theater. Such an amazing movie, even to this day. My only gripe is that Molly Ringwald was John Hughes go to sex appeal. Every movie she was in had women that were much more beautiful, it never made sense to me. Anyone upset by older art and getting offended by it due to today's ridiculous standards of virtue signaling needs to grow up. All being offended does is tell the world that you're incapable of controlling your own emotions and want others to do it for you. That's ridiculous. Stop being pathetic.

The theme song is easy to play its just the chords F-A and G

*Trading Places* not *Trading Spaces* lol

0:53 🤣

Wasnt Nicholas cage originally supposed to play bender?

As for people complaining about this movie being this or that and not conforming to their deluded way of thinking i can only complain that they are not thinking in a way kids will in 40 years. See, not possible to do is it. Nobody could predict in 1984 ( i was 14 at the time) what weird and strange ways people would be offended 40 years later. Nobody can predict the future and nobody can change the past. Deal with it or stfu.

I had 2 black people in all my school grades. Kindergarten til grade 12. (1975-1988) And zero black teachers. It was a different world then, where i lived... in the north east suburbs/farmlands....and no im not prejudiced at all. It's just what i grew up with. Call it the proverbial 'white bubble'

Honestly I don’t think Emilio was good in this. Not a athlete or actor. Idk just my opinion. Thank goodness Judd and Anthony were in there. Love Allison.

Nicolas Cage might have played the role too eccentrically.

You're probably right: The Breakfast Club would most likely not get made today. But not because it's offensive. No, because things today suck. They suck because anything with an edge has been airbrushed and nothing can be allowed to offend anyone or anything. Well, what about if I find the lack of genuine human behaviour offensive? What if it gets on my nerves that artists aren't allowed to express themselves honestly anymore without getting cancelled? What if I call that fascism? Perhaps then, more films like The Breakfast Club will get made? I just have to be offended the LOUDEST...

90% of reservoir dogs was shot in one place!!!

I don't think the lack of diversity is an issue -- at all. I'll explain why -- our schools are STILL largely de-facto segregated (based on socio-economic status and who lives in the neighborhood.) It's TOTALLY plausible even in 2024, but especially in 1984 that five caucasian kids would be in detention. I don't think the characters need to be diverse for me to see myself in John or in Claire or in Allison or in Brian. And now that I'm old, in Carl and Mr. Vernon - lol.

I'm sick to death of all this bullshit about cancelling non-diverse movies which were made nearly 40 years ago, and saying that "that's how it was then" was a poor excuse for not casting actors the public demanded. If it was so important back then, why not say anything THEN?

i dont understand why u had to bring politics into the breakfast club. like its just a damn movie

They have to bring "diversity". Who gives a s**t!. Goddamn wokeness is sickening! This was a great film just like it was!

did you hear what molly ringwald said about being white. she needs to shut up

I'm sorry but for the vast majority of kids in America in 1984 this was what it was like. The whole diversity crap is played out. Nobody is stopping anybody from making their own movies. Why would John Hughes know what life is like in an all black school? That's just a weird take. Love it or hate it for its lack of diversity there is a reason this is the number ONE movie of that era. And there is a reason the 80's is WIDELY regarded as the best decade. And no amount of boo hooing is going to change that. Sorry. Not sorry. The 80's was the last decent decade before this country became trash. lmao

Watch a movie for what it is - don't talk about DEI garbage.

Too woke YT

Woke .. entitled to rewrite history.

Love the old footage.

I lived in those apartment buildings in 1979.