<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $1 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $51.5 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American coming - of - age comedy - drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes, starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy . The storyline follows five teenagers, each members of different high school cliques, who spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all more than their respective stereotypes, while facing a strict disciplinarian . </P> <P> The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 7, 1985 . Universal Pictures released the film in cinemas in the United States on February 15, 1985 . It received critical acclaim and earned $51.5 million on a $1 million budget . Critics consider it one of the greatest high school films of all time, as well as one of Hughes' most memorable and recognizable works . The media referred to the film's five main actors as members of a group called the "Brat Pack". </P>

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