10 Excellent Films That Don't Actually Have A Plot
5. The Breakfast Club (1985)
Director: John Hughes After being put in detention, five students from different cliques form an unlikely friendship after learning just how much they have in common. All of them are dealing with troubled home lives and all of them feel an enormous amount of pressure to act in a certain way. In detention, theyre given the ironic task of writing an essay on the subject of who do you think you are? which is essentially what the entire film is about, characters learning to know and accept themselves. Like Clerks, The Breakfast Club is set predominantly in a single location, namely the high school library. As the film progresses, the characters learn about each others lives, sympathise with the difficulties that the others are dealing with and form close friendships, in some cases even romantic relationships. Seeing as how the film is predominantly about the characters themselves and their development, theres nothing really linking any of the scenes together, besides the general premise that theyre all stuck together in detention. Besides their outlooks, nothing has really changed by the time we get to the end of the film. Theyre still the same characters with the same problems, only now they understand a little bit more about each other.
