The Breakfast Club (Blu-ray)

What happens when you put five strangers in Saturday detention? Badass posturing, gleeful misbehaviour, and a potent dose of angst. With this exuberant film, writer-director John Hughes (Sixteen Candles) 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 prom queen (Pretty in Pink’s Milly Ringwald), the stoic jock (Repo Man’s Emilio Estevez), the foul-mouthed rebel (New Jack City’s Judd Nelson), the virginal bookworm (Edward Scissorhands’s Anthony Michael Hall), and the kooky recluse (High Art’s Ally Sheedy)—and watches them shed their personae and emerge into unlikely friendships.

With its highly quotable dialogue and star-making performances, this film is an eradefining pop-culture phenomenon, a disarmingly candid exploration of the trials of adolescence whose influence now spans generations.

• 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary from 2008 featuring actors Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson
• New interviews with actors Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy
• New video essay featuring director John Hughes’s production notes, read by Nelson
• Documentary from 2008 featuring interviews with cast and crew
• Fifty minutes of never before-seen deleted and extended scenes
• Rare promotional and archival interviews
• Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes
• Radio interview from 1999 with Hughes
• Segment from a 1985 episode of NBC’s Today featuring the film’s cast
• Audio interview with Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by author and critic David Kamp