Results: Don't You Forget About Me
Published on 02/16/2020
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Don't worry, we didn't forget about you. It's been 35 years since The Breakfast Club, the iconic classic dramedy, written and directed by John Hughes, debuted in 1985. It doesn't matter what year you went to high school or what school you even went to, there will always be a "criminal", an "athlete", a "princess", a "brain", and a "basket case". This movie took the so-called stereotypes and showed that we all have more in common than we think. Did you see this movie?
Yes
45%
1032 votes
Yes, and it's one of my favourites
10%
222 votes
Parts of it
7%
161 votes
No
29%
665 votes
Never even heard of it
9%
205 votes
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The five principal stars all ended up as part of "the Brat Pack," a term first prominently used in a 1985 cover story in New York magazine to describe the young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s. Besides the five from The Breakfast Club, the Brat Pack also included Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, plus many others. This was of course, a reference to the "Rat Pack" of the 1950s and 1960s, which included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and others. Most of the members of this Brat Pack (specifically the five from The Breakfast Club) continued to have successful careers after their teen movie careers -- which of these do you know now from their more adult roles?
Molly Ringwald -- The Secret Life Of The American Teenager, Riverdale, Betsy's Wedding, The Stand and Teaching Mrs. Tingle.
35%
810 votes
Emilio Estevez -- some acting, but mostly directing, with The War at Home, Bobby, The Way and The Public
33%
743 votes
Judd Nelson -- Airheads, Empire, Billionaire Boys Club, Suddenly Susan
24%
546 votes
Anthony Michael Hall -- The Dark Knight, Foxcatcher, Live by Night, War Machine, Riverdale, Pirates of Silicon Valley
19%
439 votes
Ally Sheedy -- Oz, The Dead Zone, CSI, Kyle XY and Pysch, Shelter Island, Welcome to the Rileys and X-Men: Apocalypse.
24%
546 votes
All
19%
424 votes
None -- only know them from their teen movies
23%
530 votes
Do not know any of these actors then or now
17%
389 votes
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John Hughes passed away in 2009, leaving a legacy of films, but he is best known for this teen oriented movies of the 1980s, and the Home Alone franchise. He directed over 40 movies, so this is only a partial list, but please feel free to include any favourites I have missed. Which of his many films were your favourites?
The Breakfast Club
32%
725 votes
Sixteen Candles
25%
561 votes
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
35%
792 votes
Pretty In Pink
24%
551 votes
Weird Science
16%
368 votes
Home Alone
43%
993 votes
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
25%
567 votes
Uncle Buck
29%
664 votes
Some Kind Of Wonderful
6%
145 votes
National Lampoon's Vacation
31%
712 votes
Curly Sue
9%
202 votes
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
28%
634 votes
Dennis The Menace
17%
384 votes
Beethoven
20%
464 votes
Home Alone 3
18%
400 votes
101 Dalmatians
23%
517 votes
The Great Outdoors
11%
249 votes
Maid In Manhattan
19%
424 votes
None of them
17%
389 votes
All of them
6%
135 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
16 votes
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In high school, did you fit into any of The Breakfast Club's stereotypical roles -- or were you in a "class by yourself"?
The Athlete
5%
107 votes
The Brain
10%
239 votes
The Criminal
5%
107 votes
The Princess
4%
96 votes
The Basket Case
5%
123 votes
None and I didn't really fall into any stereotypical group
65%
1482 votes
Did not go to high school
4%
91 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
40 votes
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For many of us, hearing the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds, immediately brings to mind this movie. Music has a way of associating with a film or memory like nothing else. Do you associate any of these songs with the movies they are from (again I have only included some of the many, of course, including some from John Hughes' movies)?
"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor ("Rocky III")
46%
1057 votes
"Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees ("Saturday Night Fever")
49%
1124 votes
"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston ("The Bodyguard")
44%
994 votes
"Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler ("Beaches")
32%
738 votes
"I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith ("Armageddon")
24%
550 votes
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life by by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes ("Dirty Dancing")
41%
931 votes
"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio ("Dangerous Minds")
12%
283 votes
"Take My Breath Away" by Berlin ("Top Gun")
30%
682 votes
"Oh Yeah" by Yello ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off")
13%
293 votes
"In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel ("Say Anything")
13%
299 votes
None
16%
370 votes
All
8%
180 votes
Don't know any of these songs/movies
6%
136 votes
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