Why are they called The Breakfast Club?

[Colinmarshall]

Just dawned on me. Why are they called The Breakfast Club? The movie's characters and themes couldn't have less to do with breakfast.

They did eat lunch in the movie, but that's as close as we came.

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

The film's title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for detention at the school attended by the son of one of John Hughes' friends. Thus, those who were sent to detention were designated members of "The Breakfast Club".

From IMDB: (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/trivia)

[gotpasswords]

[pointless brush with semi-fame]

The Breakfast Club was filmed at Maine Township High School North, much more commonly and sensibly referred to as Maine North, in Des Plaines, IL. What looked like a school library, was actually a set built in a large gym at the school. At the time, the school was closed due to dwindling enrollment. My brush with semi-fame comes from having gone to Maine West (also in Des Plaines) at roughly the same time the movie was being filmed.

The same school also played a part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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[interface2x]

My brush with semi-fame comes from having gone to Maine West (also in Des Plaines) at roughly the same time the movie was being filmed.


My brush with semi-fame is that my best friend's identical twin sister used to work (the company moved in October) across the street from said high school. It's the best I've got.

[friedo]

An Oreos commercial was shot in my elementary school.

I rock.

[furt]

I've crossed the bridge in "Eddie and the Cruisers" a thousand times.

[Mister Rik]

The Breakfast Club was the first movie I paid to see twice in the theater.


Oh, and Ice-T's movie, Surviving The Game was shot in my town. I got to watch some of the filming up close. And I personally knew two of the local men they hired as extras to play the parts of homeless men. I'll bet you didn't know that they hired honest-to-goodness, local homeless men for the parts :)

[xvxdarkknightxvx]

I've been inside the Quickstop, and when I was there, RST Video was closed, which I complained about. While in the Quickstop, my friend checked for the perfect egg carton as I looked for a gallon of milk with a decent date on it. I live about 25 minutes from the place. I've also been on the boardwalk where God was knocked unconscious by street hockey ghouls.

[RumMunkey]

While in the Quickstop, my friend checked for the perfect egg carton as I looked for a gallon of milk

...and I'll bet you're the first people to do that! ;)

[Sister Vigilante]

Parts of Freejack were filmed at and around Georgia State University while I was attending. I heard Jerry Hall named her daughter, whom she gave birth to the correct number of months later, Atlanta... could be apocryphal.

[VunderBob]

A hijack, but Steve Buscemi is the director of a movie currently being shot in the town where Igrew up (Goshen, Indiana)

[BiblioCat]

My brush with fame: I went to the high school used in the John Waters' film Serial Mom and parts of Barry Levinson's Avalon were filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up. If you know exactly when to look and look really fast and don't blink, you can see the part of the house where I grew up. We had to take the old TV antenna off of our roof for filming (as well as a bunch of our neighbors). It didn't really matter, because we had cable by then. We'd just never taken the old antenna down.

[Armilla]

Since we're swapping brushes with fame:

In the movie Snatch a few scenes are set on the street in Hatton Garden. In a couple of shots you can see the door to my flat. A few more shots were filmed by a cameraman standing just outside my doorway. There's also a scene inside a pub where I drink, the Mitre, which is tucked away in a narrow alleyway just off Hatton Garden.

[Jonathan Chance]

An indie movie (I'd have to find the name) was shot in the house I'm buying next month. It hasn't been released yet but when it is you know I'll be going!

Hey! There's my bathroom!

[RogueRacer]

In Grumpier Old Men there is a scene with people square dancing (or maybe it's a polka?) in the background. One of the dancers is a middle aged man with jet black hair that was insanely obviously dyed. It's kind of Ron Jeremy-like hair, so it stands out.

He was a high school history teacher of mine. Top that! ;)

[don't ask]

I went to school in Canberra Australia with Jackie Chan.

[dwc1970]

The storefront of my mom and dad's drugstore makes a brief appearance in a lesser-known Clint Eastwood movie called Bronco Billy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080472/) that came out in 1980.

[seriousart]

Ummm... my ex girlfriend was an unseen extra in Days of Thunder and described Tom Cruise as appearing "small and bird-like" in real life.

[Munch]

The same school also played a part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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And Weird Science.

[Cliffy]

The climax of Minority Report is filmed on a balcony of my office building -- they were originally going to shoot it on our floor (8th) but decided to get a little higher for a better view of the Washington Monument so they went to up to nine.

--Cliffy

[rjk]

Just to un-hijack the thread for a moment, weren't they called the Breakfast Club because they had to come in early to serve their time?

[/un-hijack]

The Canadian movie Who Has Seen the Wind was set in my home town, Weyburn, Saskatchewan. It was called 'Crocus' in the book by W. O. Mitchell, but shot in some small town not far away because Weyburn didn't look like the 1930s any more. I guess that's as close to fame as I can get.

[Evil Death]

Top that! ;)

I've had a segment on national, prime-time TV. Does that count?

[Dante]

In the late 80's-early 90's, I used to dance on Electric Circus (http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/ec/) at CityTV in Toronto, and was treated to intimate shows with the likes of Ice-T and bouncy French-Canadian Mitsou.

:runs and hides in shame:

[bradthomas]

From IMDB: (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/trivia)


To get back on topic, the reason that detention was called the breakfast club at the daughter's friend's high school was that it was at 7:00 AM or so, rather than the weekend. The school in question is New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL. My alma mater and one district over from Glanbrook North, where John Hughes went.

Brad

[Cardinal]

He was a high school history teacher of mine. Top that! Well, my brother has a full face shot in the beginning of "Slackers" as he walks across from right to left in the very beginning. His face fills the screen.


So there!!

[Eats_Crayons]

Yeah? Well, my brush with fame --


Bah, forget about it... It's not nearly so cool when your spouse (and sometimes you) work in the film industry.

Oo! Oo! Although said Sniffs_Markers was the "foot double" for an actor who couldn't drive stick shift (and they had to film feet waling around the car, getting in, etc.). She was on set and was the only one who fit his exact shoe size. So she actually got screen time! Yep, yep! Sniffs's feet will be famous!!! :cool:

[kung fu lola]

My ex used to hang out with Madonna, back in her "wild days". Ah, the stories....

[Munch]

I was in Major League. 'Course it was one of the crowd scenes, but I'm famous!

[BiblioCat]

I was in Major League. 'Course it was one of the crowd scenes, but I'm famous!Oh, I forgot about that. They filmed Major League 2 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards (in Baltimore) and my husband and I are in some crowd scenes! We were there for a game and they got a bunch of live crowd shots. Can't actually see us though...