With this exuberant, disarmingly candid film, writer-director John Hughes established himself as the bard of American youth, vividly and empathetically capturing how teenagers hang out, act up, and goof off. The Breakfast Club brings together an assortment of adolescent archetypes the uptight popular girl, the stoic jock, the foulmouthed rebel, the virginal bookworm, and the kooky recluse and watches them shed their personae and emerge into unlikely...