re: How brilliant was the Breakfast Club screenplay?

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The scene where Andrew beaks all the glass was always so random right up there with the random arse parade during the middle the day on a Tuesday

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Definitely a flight of whimsy by the filmmaker.

After listening to the “Living in the 80s” podcast I learned that :

Hughes said the glass breaking scene was his biggest regret of the movie.
The original cut was 3 hours long. John’s relatives are the only ones in the world with that footage. I hope one day it gets released.