Though writer/director John Hughes pumped out films examining the lives of middle-class teens in the 1980s, including Sixteen Candles, Weird Science and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, none of them packed quite the same punch as The Breakfast Club. The dramedy about a group of mismatched teens forced to find common ground while trapped together in Saturday detention, which was released on February 15, 1985, was a blockbuster hit, earning over $51 million on a $1 million budget, and transforming its brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and criminal into enormous stars.
40 years later, the film remains a teen classic and a cultural touchstone — it’s hard to go a whole Halloween without catching someone in a John Bender costume, still. But where are the film’s Brat Pack stars today (Hughes tragically passed away in 2009, at the age of 59.)? Don’t you forget about them — here’s everything you need to know.
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