Throughout the 1990s you may have seen her in Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992), and The Stand (1994).Īlthough her high profile movie roles became fewer and further between, in 2001 Ringwald had a cameo in the commercially successful Not Another Teen Movie that earned her an MTV Movie Award nomination. It’s hard for me to understand how John was able to write with so much sensitivity, and also have such a glaring blind spot.”īlind spot or not, Ringwald followed The Breakfast Club with another Hughes script, 1986's Pretty in Pink, then later starred in The Pick-up Artist (1987), Fresh Horses (1988) and For Keeps (1988). “vaguely aware of how inappropriate much of John’s writing was. Ringwald noted that as a teenager, she was only When he’s not sexualising her, he takes out his rage on her with vicious contempt, calling her ‘pathetic’.” While there, he takes the opportunity to peek under Claire’s skirt and, though the audience doesn’t see, it is implied that he touches her inappropriately.īender sexually harasses Claire throughout the film. But I hadn’t anticipated that it would ultimately be most troubling to me.Īt one point in the film the bad-boy character, John Bender, ducks under the table where my character, Claire, is sitting, to hide from a teacher. “I worried she would find aspects of it troubling. In an article for The New Yorker, Ringwald explains how when watching the film with her 10-year-old daughter. In recent years, though, Ringwald has spoken out against The Breakfast Club and aspects of John Hughes writing that she found inappropriate. But eventually Ringwald convinced Hughes and the studio to give her the part. That role had a lot of competition though, with Hughes auditioning Robin Wright, Jodie Foster, and Laura Dern. After receiving the script Ringwald felt she connected more with the character Claire Standish (then named "Cathy" in the first draft). Towards the end of filming, Hughes asked them both to be in The Breakfast Club, offering Ringwald the role of Allison Reynolds. She had previously starred in John Hughes's 1984 film Sixteen Candles, along with Anthony Michael Hall. Molly Ringwald was ranked number 1 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars and is often one of the names first thought of when the term "Brat pack" is used. Molly Ringwald as Claire Standish, the princess And it was the introduction setting for the hit 1985 film The Breakfast Club, writeen and directed by the late, great John Hughes.īut what have the cast been up to over the last 36 years? Where are the princess, the brain, the athlete, the criminal, the basket case and the Assistant Principal today? Join us as we find out whatever happened to the cast of The Breakfast Club. OK, so the assignment given was "Who you think you are?", the high school was fictional, and the six characters above were all played by actors, respectively Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson,Īlly Sheedy and Paul Gleason. He assigned them a thousand-word essay, in which each must describe "Where will you be in the year 2020?". They gathered in the school library, where Assistant Principal Richard Vernon instructed them not to talk, move from their seats, or sleep until they are released at 4:00 p.m. Each came from a different clique: Claire Standish the Snob, Brian Johnson the Geek, Andrew Clark the Jock, John Bender the Punk, and Allison Reynolds the Kook. On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five Shermer High School students reported at 7:00 a.m.