12 Classic Movies That Got Away With Problematic Scenes

The Breakfast Club is a wonderful ‘80s movie, brilliant at deconstructing tropes and is the quintessential story about nothing which actually manages to be about something. However, modern day viewing raises a couple of questions.

The most common critique isn’t anything problematic, just something which is a massive cop out and goes against the intelligence the movie had instilled in its message.

The Breakfast Club is a movie about different people, each high school stereotypes, who realise they’re not that different. So why exactly did the weird girl need a very out of character makeover to end up another pretty girl dating a jock? Indeed, why do Andrew and Allison get together at all?

While their relationship raises eyebrows, it’s got nothing on Bender and Claire; this is where the problematic scene comes in. They too end up together at the end, despite never really showing romantic chemistry until the plot called for it towards the ending.

It’s established that Bender’s behaviour is a defence mechanism, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s truly awful to her for most of the film. The scene where he sneaks under the table to peek up her skirt is especially gross.