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mk · 2421 days ago · link · · parent · post: Molly Ringwald: What About the Breakfast Club?: Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.
Agreed. I'd wager that Hughes was practicing a crass humor, both for the commercial effect, and probably because it was darkly funny in its portrayal of an often brutal environment for self discovery. But the dad and the underpants, that's just fucked up, and it betrayed the characters.