What 1985 film features five high school students serving Saturday detention?

What 1985 film features five high school students serving Saturday detention? The answer is The Breakfast Club.

Written and directed by John Hughes, this coming-of-age comedy-drama brings together five students from sharply different social groups at Shermer High School. Brian is the academic “brain,” Andrew the athlete, Claire the popular “princess,” Allison the outsider, and Bender the rebellious “criminal.” Their Saturday detention is supervised by vice principal Richard Vernon.

Although the students begin as stereotypes, the day forces them to discuss family pressure, school expectations, loneliness, and identity. The title refers to the group’s shared detention-day experience rather than a formal school club. The film was released in 1985 and became one of Hughes’s defining teen movies.

A common mix-up is confusing it with Hughes’s other films Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Those movies also focus on teenagers, but none centers on five students spending Saturday detention together.