Sincerely Yours, The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club takes place in Shermer High School, located in Illinois, and centers around five teenagers sentenced to Saturday detention. The five students, who appear to have nothing in common, congregate in the school's library, where they are ordered not to speak or move from their seats by their principal, Mr. Richard Vernon. Brian, Allison, Claire, Andrew, and John are forced to remain in the library for eight hours and are assigned a 1,000 word essay describing who they perceive themselves to be.

In order to pass the time they gradually begin to open up to one another despite the fact that, normally, they would never converse. They eventually discover that each of them have strained relationships with their parents and that they fear becoming like the adults around them. Despite their developing friendship, the group worries that once they finish detention they will return to their differing cliques and refuse to speak to one another.

The consensus of the group is that Brian write Mr. Vernon's essay:

Brian Johnson: Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong...but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...

Andrew Clark: ...and an athlete...

Allison Reynolds: ...and a basket case...

Claire Standish: ...a princess...

John Bender: ...and a criminal...

Brian Johnson: Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club

This movie is quintessentially 80s due to the fashion, music, characters, and the fact that Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall are in it together. Not to mention that it's a John Hughes film.