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The Breakfast Club

CastJudd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason
Year released1985
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Student Brian Johnson writes, "Dear Mr. Vernon... we think you’re crazy making us write an essay telling you who we think we are... You see us as... a basket case..." (0:02, 1:34)

Student Claire Standish tells her father, "It’s not like I’m defective or anything."
Claire’s father: ”Honey, ditching class to go shopping doesn’t make you a defective.” (0:03)

Student John Bender asks student Andrew Clark, "Do you slip her the hot beef injection?" (0:11)

John tells Brian, "Demented and sad..."
Brian: ”... we don’t get high.”
Claire: ”Only burners like you get high.”
Brian, referring to his cousin: ”... he got high once...”
John tells Andrew: ”I figure all I need’s a lobotomy and some tights.” (0:14)

Andrew tells John, "That’s real intelligent." (0:23)

Claire tells John, referring to her parents, "They use me just to get back at each other."
Andrew tells Claire, ”You’re just feeling sorry for yourself.”
Andrew tells John, ”Well, if I say ‘yes’, I’m an idiot, right?”
John: ”You’re an idiot anyway....”
Brian tells John, referring to Brian’s parents, ”I mean, they’re idea of parental compassion is just... wacko...” (0:25)

John tells Claire, "I mean, if he had a great personality..." (0:35)

Andrew asks John, "Did I stutter?"
John: ”Do I stutter?” (0:42)

Brian tells the others, referring to John’s package, "Drugs."
”Drugs. The boy has marijuana. That was marijuana.” (0:45)

Vice principal Richard Vernon asks John, "What if your dope was on fire?" (0:49)

John asks Brian, referring to the marijuana, "So, Ahab, can I have all my doobage?" (0:54)

Brian, Claire and John smoke joints.
Andrew smokes a joint. (0:56)

Vernon reads a student’s record: “... history of a slight mental illness.”
Janitor Carl Reed: ”Confidential files?” (0:58)

Student Allison Reynolds tells Andrew, referring to a picture in Brian’s wallet, "It’s perverted." (1:00)

Allison tells the others, "I’m a nymphomaniac."
”The only person I told was my shrink.”
Claire: ”Are you crazy?”
Brian: ”Obviously she’s crazy if she’s screwing her shrink.”
Claire: ”I don’t even have a psychiatrist.”
John asks Claire, ”Oh, are you medically frigid, or is it psychological?”
Allison: ”I’m not a nymphomaniac. I’m a compulsive liar.”
John tells Brian, ”You must be a... idiot.”
Brian: ”I’m a... idiot because I can’t make a lamp?”
Claire asks John, ”Why don’t you... take Brian out to the parking lot at lunch to get high?”
John: ”... so you just stick to the things you know... and your poor rich drunk mother in the Caribbean?”
Claire tells Andrew, ”Killing yourself is not an option.” (1:07)

Reference in Beautiful Girls

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