The Breakfast Club

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the characters have come to relate to one another, the movie closes with the opening song "Don't You (forget about me)" and the song takes on an entirely new meaning to the audience. This song became the anthem for a group of rowdy kids that found hope in each other despite their differences.
Another important part of the film is the diversity of the characters. In order for this film to be a successful coming of age movie the message has to reach a variety of teenagers. Filling the movie with the positivity of "the jock," the mystery of "the criminal", the vanity of the "princess", the intelligence of "the brain", and the sadness of "the basket case", the movie covers the different stereotypes teenagers are labeled with. Whether someone is a "mathlete" or the most popular girl in school, this movie provides a variety of characters with the ability to relate. With such a wide variety of teenage characters the differences between them become clear, but eventually begin to lose ...

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