The Breakfast Club is a movie.
John Hughes (filmmaker) . He directed and/or scripted some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s including the comedy National Lampoon 's Vacation ( 1983 ) , the coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ) , the teen sci-fi comedy Weird Science ( 1985 ) , the coming-of-age comedy-drama The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ) , the coming-of-age comedy Ferris Bueller 's Day Off ( 1986 ) , the romantic comedy-drama Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ) , the romance Some Kind of Wonderful ( 1987 ) , the comedies Planes , Trains and Automobiles ( 1987 ) and Uncle Buck ( 1989 ) , the Christmas family comedy Home Alone ( 1990 ) and its sequel , Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York ( 1992 ) . The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written , produced , and directed by John Hughes , starring Emilio Estevez , Paul Gleason , Anthony Michael Hall , Judd Nelson , Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy . Critics consider it one of the greatest high school films of all time , as well as one of Hughes ' most memorable and recognizable works .