The Breakfast Club | 1985

'Saturday, March 24th, 1984.

'Shermer High School, Shermer, lllinois. 60062.

'Dear Mr Vernon,

'we accept that we had to sacrifice Saturday in detention for what we did.

'What we did was wrong.

'But you're crazy to make us write an essay about who we think we are.

'What do you care?

'You see us as you want to see us,

'in the simplest terms and most convenient definitions.

'You see us as a brain,

'an athlete, a basket case,

'a princess and a criminal.

'Correct?

'That's how we saw each other at 7:00 this morning.

'We were brainwashed. '

I can't believe you can't get me out of this.

I mean, it's so absurd I have to be here on a Saturday.

I'm not a defective.

I'll make it up to you.

Ditching class to go shopping doesn't make you a defective. Have a good day.

It's the first or last time we do this?

The last.

Use the time to your advantage.

We're not supposed to study.

You figure out a way to study.

Yeah.

Well, go!