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A film for our 20th birthday

The Breakfast Club

One of our final films at Stepney Bank

John Hughs, 1983, USA, 90mins, cert 15

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Sun 19 April // 14:00 / Cinema

Tickets: £7/£5/£3/£0

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Five students. One Saturday. Nothing in common, or so it seems.

The Breakfast Club brings together a group of high schoolers from different social worlds, each serving detention under the watch of a strict teacher. Over the course of the day, the lines between brain, athlete, basket case, princess and criminal begin to blur, as they confront expectations, identity and the pressures shaping their lives.

Written and directed by John Hughes, the film has become one of the defining works of 1980s American cinema. What begins as a simple premise unfolds into something more revealing, as conversations deepen and assumptions fall away.

By turns funny, awkward and disarmingly honest, The Breakfast Club captures a moment of connection that feels as immediate now as it did on its release. A film about being seen, being misunderstood, and the possibility of finding common ground.