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Breakfast Club (1985) Original Theatrical Trailer [4K] [FTD-0686]

The Breakfast Club(1985)
Released
1985 · FILM

The Breakfast Club

When five high school students are forced into detention and locked in the library with a strict vice principal, they must confront their true selves while outwitting the rules and escaping the suffocating pressure of their small-town lives.

“They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.”

Directed by
John Hughes, Robert P Cohen
Written by
John Hughes
Rated
FSK · FSK 12
Runtime
97 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Five high school students from different backgrounds are forced to attend a Saturday detention led by a domineering principal. The diverse group consists of the rebellious John, the privileged Claire, the outcast Allison, the intelligent Brian, and the athlete Andrew. Each student gets an opportunity to share their personal story, allowing the others to view them in a new light. By the end of the day, they begin to wonder if their experience in school will ever be the same.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 110+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dede AllenShot by Thomas Del RuthScored by Keith ForseyDesigned by John W CorsoSound by Jim Alexander Nm0018482Costumes by Marilyn Vance

Box Office

1985 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 52× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$51.5M

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$51.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $45.9M — 89% of worldwide · International: $5.7M (11%)

Opening weekend: $5.9M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.9M — 13% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,071 theaters

Re-release box office

20251,130 theaters
$894K($918K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Breakfast Clubde
  • Der Frühstücks Clubde
  • Der Frühstücksclubde
  • The Breakfast Club - Der Frühstücksclubde
  • (Alternative Title)El club de los cinco
  • Breakfast Clubfr
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesFeb 7, 1985
  • MexicoFeb 14, 1985
  • RussiaFeb 18, 1985

Production & Distribution

Production companies
Universal PicturesA&M FilmsChannel Productions

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