Mollie Ringwald in “The Breakfast Club”
There are few movies as iconic as the brat pack’s cult classic The Breakfast Club, and it remains one of the most popular depictions of high school dynamics even to this day. But one of the movie’s stars, Mollie Ringwald, wrote a lengthy essay in the New Yorker years later, explaining how uncomfortable the movie made her in hindsight.
“John [Hughes, director] ‘s movies convey the anger and fear of isolation that adolescents feel,” she admitted. “Whether that’s enough to make up for the impropriety of the films is hard to say.”
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