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On May 26, 2023, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office agreed to Reed’s conviction being vacated. The charge was then dismissed. In December 2023, Reed filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Chicago, Cook County, and several police officers seeking compensation for his wrongful conviction.
Carl Reed, who served 20 years behind bars, had his sentenced commuted by Pritzker. ... Lauren Kaeseberg, a Chicago-based attorney for the Innocence Project, was one of three attorneys who argued ...
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On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at the fictional Shermer High School report at 7:00 a.m. for an all-day detention. Each comes from a different clique: Claire Standish, snobbish and extremely popular; Brian Johnson, a brainiac; Andrew Clark, a jock on the wrestling team; John Bender, a punk and rebel; and Allison Reynolds, an introverted ...
Casting
Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall both starred in Hughes's 1984 film Sixteen Candles. Towards the end of filming, Hughes asked them both to be in The Breakfast Club. Hall became the first to be cast, agreeing to the role of Brian Johnson; his real lifemother and sister playing the same roles in the film. Ringwald was originally approached to play the character of Allison Reynolds, but she was "really upset" because she wanted to play Claire Standish (then named "Cathy" in the first draf...
Filming
In 1999, Hughes said that his request to direct the film met with resistance and skepticism because he lacked filmmaking experience. Hughes ultimately convinced the film's investors that due to the modest $1 million budget and its single location shoot, he could greatly minimize their risk. Hughes originally thought that The Breakfast Clubwould be his directorial debut. Hughes opted for an insular, largely one-room set and wrote about high school students, who would be played by younger actor...
Poster
The film's poster, featuring the five characters huddled together, was photographed by Annie Leibovitz toward the end of shooting. The shot of five actors gazing at the camera influenced the way teen films were marketed from that point on.The poster refers to the five "types" of the story using slightly different terms than those used in the film, and in a different sequence, stating "They were five total strangers with nothing in common, meeting for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock,...
The main theme of the film is the constant struggle of the American teenager to be understood, by adults and by themselves. It explores the pressure put on teenagers to fit into their own realms of high school social constructs, as well as the lofty expectations of their parents, teachers, and other authority figures. On the surface, the students h...
The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 7, 1985. Universal Picturesreleased the film in cinemas on February 15, 1985, in the United States.
Critical response
Roger Ebert awarded three stars out of four and called the performances "wonderful", adding that the film was "more or less predictable" but "doesn't need earthshaking revelations; it's about kids who grow willing to talk to one another, and it has a surprisingly good ear for the way they speak." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "This confessional formula has worked in films as different as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Big...
Box office
In February 1985, the film debuted at No. 3 at the box office (behind Beverly Hills Cop and Witness).Grossing $45,875,171 domestically and $51,525,171 worldwide, the film was a box office success, given its $1 million budget.
Accolades
Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason and Ally Sheedy all won a Silver Bucket of Excellence Award at the 2005 MTV Movie Awardsin 2005.
The Breakfast Club has been called the quintessential 1980s film. In 2008, Empire magazine ranked it at number 369 on their The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time list. It later ranked at number 38 on their 2014 list. Similarly, The New York Times placed the film on its Best 1000 Movies Ever list and Entertainment Weekly ranked the film number 1 on it...
The film's soundtrack, The Breakfast Club (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), was produced by British pop musician Keith Forsey and released on February 19, 1985 by A&M Records. The album peaked at No. 17 on the US Billboard 200 album chart. The song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" performed by Scottish rock band Simple Minds was released on Februa...
Overview
The album contains ten songs that are played partially throughout the movie, performed by bands and singers of the rock and new wavegenre, including three instrumental songs by record producer Keith Forsey. Simple Minds's international hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)" is played in the opening and closing credits. A music video was made for this song and for Wang Chung's "Fire in the Twilight" (reached No 110 on the US Billboard Hot 100).
Critical reception
The soundtrack received generally negative reviews. In a June 25, 1985 review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "D−" and said that it has "utterly negligible" songs, and he commended Simple Minds for trying to distance themselves from their song, "Don't You (Forget About Me)", best known for being played during the film's opening and closing credits. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewinegave the soundtrack three out of five stars a...
The Breakfast Club at IMDbThe Breakfast Club at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Breakfast Club at Box Office MojoThe Breakfast Club at Rotten TomatoesBrad Reed is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Brad represents private equity sponsors, public companies and other clients in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and counsels clients on a range of general corporate and securities law matters, including Exchange Act periodic reporting and disclosure issues, corporate governance best practices, Sarbanes-Oxley ...
Carl graduated Lewis & Clark’s Northwestern School of Law, Portland, Oregon, J.D. in 1994 and University of Chicago, B.A. in Economics in 1991 His practice areas include construction law, mechanics/construction liens, bond claims, commercial litigation and catastrophic loss litigation including subrogation, OSHA disputes, will and trust disputes, trade secrets, insurance law and insurance ...
