[NFBP-Talk] Breakfast Club

Sat May 7 12:32:05 UTC 2022

STOP I’m not interested in your messages.

On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 8:30 AM Ruth Reynolds via NFBP-Talk <
nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>      THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE, FOR WELCOMING ME!
>
>        PLEASE, TELL ME AGAIN WHEN TRIVIA NIGHT IS HELD, AND WHAT’S
> INVOLVED?
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> SINCERELY,
> RUTH
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On May 4, 2022, at 11:57 AM, Steve Cook via NFBP-Talk <
> nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> 
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> The National Federation of the Blind of SC would like to invite you to
> movie night on Friday, May 6, 2022 at 8:00 PM EDT. This months movie is the
> Breakfast Club. So bring your favorite snacks, drinks ETC and join us! More
>  about the movie is below the Zoom information to join us.
>  Federation Center
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> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8032543777?pwd=QTVQd2RzN3l6QnNmZ0FmSnp6NG8vQT09
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> Rating: TVMA
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> Run Time: 1:37
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> On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at the fictional Shermer High
> School report at 7:00 a.m. for an all-day detention. Each comes from a
> different clique: Brian Johnson, a brainiac; Andrew Clark, a jock on the
> wrestling team; Allison Reynolds, an introverted outcast; Claire Standish,
> a snobbish and popular girl; and John Bender, a rebellious teen delinquent.
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> They gather in the school library, where Vice Principal Richard Vernon
> instructs them to not 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.
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>
>
> John, who has an antagonistic relationship with Vernon, ignores the rules
> and riles up the other students. John spends most of his time bullying or
> harassing Claire, Brian, and Andrew. They all eventually feel sorry for him
> after seeing how he deals with abusive adults like Vernon, who gives John
> eight weekends' worth of additional detention and eventually locks him in a
> storage closet for talking back. John eventually escapes through the
> ceiling and returns to the library.
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> The students then pass the time by talking, arguing, and, at one point,
> smoking marijuana (except Allison, who doesn't smoke with the rest).
> Gradually, they open up and reveal their secrets: Claire has many
> experiences of peer pressure due to her popularity; John comes from an
> abusive household; Allison is a compulsive liar who dreams of running away
> from home; Andrew cannot think for himself due to his controlling father,
> and Brian contemplated suicide over a failing grade. They discover they all
> have poor relationships with their parents: Claire's parents use her to get
> back at each other during arguments; John's parents physically and verbally
> abuse him; Allison's parents are neglectful; Andrew's father emotionally
> abuses him to the limit to succeed, especially in wrestling; and Brian's
> parents pressure him to earn the highest grades possible. They all realize
> that, despite their differences, they face similar problems.
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>
>
> Each student then confesses why they are in detention. Andrew taped
> another student's buttocks together using athletic tape because he felt he
> had not "cut loose" on anyone in high school like his domineering father
> had. Brian left a flare gun in his locker, which went off accidentally,
> that he planned to use to commit suicide after getting an F in shop class.
> Vernon subsequently found it. Claire mentions peer pressure to go along
> with what her friends want to do: at the start of the film, Claire's father
> stated through dialogue that she is in detention due to skipping school to
> go shopping. Vernon had earlier stated that John was in detention for
> pulling a false fire alarm. Allison admitted she did nothing, yet showed up
> anyway for lack of anything better to do.
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>
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> Claire gives Allison a makeover, which sparks romantic interest from
> Andrew. Claire decides to break her "pristine" innocent appearance by
> kissing John. Although suspecting their new relationships will end when
> detention is over, they believe their mutual experiences will change the
> way they look at their peers.
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> As the detention nears its end, the group requests that Brian complete the
> essay for everyone, and John returns to the storage closet so Vernon thinks
> he never left. Brian leaves the essay in the library for Vernon to read
> after they leave. As the students part ways, Allison and Andrew kiss, as do
> Claire and John. Allison rips Andrew's state championship patch from his
> jacket to keep, and Claire gives John one of her diamond earrings, which he
> then wears. Vernon reads the essay, in which Brian states that Vernon has
> already judged who they are using stereotypes and that he is crazy if he
> thinks they'll tell him who they are; Brian correspondingly states: "Each
> one of us is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a
> criminal. Does that answer your question?" He signs off the essay with
> "Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club." John raises his fist while walking
> through an empty football field.
>
>
>
> Cast
>
> Emilio Estevez as Andrew Clark (the "Athlete")
>
> Molly Ringwald as Claire Standish (the "Princess")
>
> Judd Nelson as John Bender (the "Criminal")
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> Anthony Michael Hall as Brian Johnson (the "Brain")
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> Ally Sheedy as Allison Reynolds (the "Basket Case")
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> Paul Gleason as Vice Principal Richard Vernon
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> John Kapelos as Carl Reed, the janitor
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> Ron Dean as Mr. Clark
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> Steve Cook
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> District 2 State Board Member of the National Federation of the Blind of SC
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> President of the Computer Science & Technology Division of the National
> Federation of the Blind of SC
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> 1st Vice President of the Columbia chapter of the National Federation of
> the Blind of SC
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