11 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of The Breakfast Club
9. Hughes
Hughes has often been complimented for his ability to grasp the teen vernacular, with this becoming the defining movie for all teen movies that would follow. It has been noted that ““John wasn’t too far from the teenage years. He had a pulse on teens”, at the time he was writing the script. The original draft was written over the course of just one weekend, and then forgotten about, as detailed above.