to being the
poet laureate of teen angst. It also gave him the muscle and clout to produce
his own films like "Pretty in Pink" and "Some Kind of Wonderful," and also made
stars out of Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald, albeit for a short
time. ...
What It Tells Us Now: ... But, more importantly, "The
Breakfast Club" defined teen angst for decades to come and gave Generation X's
white suburban teens a flag they could rally around. When future sociologists
need to know why the children of the (Reagan) revolution grew into such
messed-up adults, "The Breakfast Club" will go a long way toward explaining the
self-centered self-pity that defined so much of Generation X's pop culture and
pop psychology.
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