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The Breakfast Club - 2 Disc Special Edition [1985]
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes (Sixteen Candles), who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. --Tom Keogh
Don't buy this Region 2 version
Review date: 2008-09-24 Rating: 4 out of 10
I was so excited to see that my second favourite film of all time was finally getting a decent DVD treatment, yet there were no specs for the Region 2. All I could find was the Region 1 release which boasted of commentary with Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall. Amazing right?
Sadly due to some nonsense or other the commentary tracks are not on the Region 2 release. But... the Region 1 is just a single disc. This one must be better, right?!
Nope. They've just put the same documentary features over onto another disc to make way for the umpteen language tracks on Disc 1 (which didn't leave any room for the original mono mix of the audio it seems, just 5.1 (not ideal for me without surround). Sigh.
Off to spend money on the US version...
Still, at least we finally have it.
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Anthony Michael Hall
Ally Sheedy
Judd Nelson
Emilio Estevez
Molly Ringwald
Creators:
Molly Ringwald (Primary Contributor)
Ally Sheedy (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Universal Pictures UK
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
EAN: 5050582573190
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 2
Format: Box set, PAL, Special Edition,
Release date: 2008-09-22
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 94 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1985