A brain, a jock, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal return to theaters in September when the John Hughes classic, The Breakfast Club, celebrates its 40th anniversary with a rerelease.
The 1985 blockbuster about a group of suburban Chicago high school misfits who are forced to spend detention together is being rereleased by Universal Pictures. It will hit theaters nationwide on Sept. 7 and Sept. 10, as The Hollywood Reporter reports. Advanced tickets go on sale Saturday, Aug. 16.
The Breakfast Club stars Molly Ringwald (Claire, the princess), Emilio Estevez (Andrew, the athlete), Judd Nelson (John, the criminal), Ally Sheedy (Allison, the basket case), and Anthony Michael Hall (Brian, the brain). The film, which showcased different teen archetypes who have more in common than what the societal pecking order dictates, resonated, and it helped launch the ensemble cast’s careers while ushering in the so-called Brat Pack.
Earlier this year, all five of the castmates reunited publicly for the first time since the film’s 1985 release to discuss the movie’s 40th anniversary at the C2E2 convention in Chicago.
“I feel really very emotional and moved to have us all together,” Ringwald said at the event, via THR. While four of the stars had previously reunited, the C2E2 event was the first time Estevez joined them. “We don’t have to use the cardboard cutout anymore because he’s here. I feel really moved that we’re all together,” Ringwald added.
Estevez said he joined them because it “was something that finally I felt I needed to do just for myself. This one felt special, it’s here in Chicago where we made the film. It’s obviously the 40th anniversary, and it just felt like it was time. Somebody told me that Molly said, ‘Well, does Emilio just not like us?’ And that broke my heart. And I went, ‘No of course I love all of them.’ And that just made sense, so here I am.”
The film marked its 30th anniversary in 2015 with a new Blu-Ray edition as well as a two-day theatrical release. Y.A. novelist John Green, Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, and the creative partners behind The O.C. and Gossip Girl Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage discussed the film’s cultural impact three decades in with Rolling Stone.
“I connected to its tribal portrait of high school — the kind of divided war zone it was — and that universal message that all kids are going through this,” Savage said. “No matter what their background is, how they dress, or what music they like, they are going through similar struggles.”
