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Stereotypes In The Breakfast Club

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In The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes a group of five outcasts end up in a library serving time for detention. All of the teens, you soon figure out, are the typical stereotypes of what a teenager is. Soon this detention soon turns from a bad situation to a worse situation when they team up together wreaking havoc around the school.
While this movie represents teenagers coming together, even though they come from different backgrounds, as the main point it also brings some mild language and some drug paraphernalia. Despite these minor actions, in this movie, it also has a good moral to the story at the end. All the while this film is probably more for teenagers it can make for a good family movie for kids 13 and up and their parents.
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