THE Too cool for school BREAKFAST CLUB REUNION

A behind-the-scenes report card on our favourite high school delinquents

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Don't You Forget about... The Breakfast Club! It's been 40 years since we first met the so-called “criminal”, “princess”, “athlete”, “brain” and “basketcase” serving a Saturday detention at Shermer High School. Launching the careers

of Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, The Breakfast Club is considered one of the best movies of the '80s and one of the best teen flicks ever. Read on to discover things you might not have known about the film...

• Judd, now 65, who plays “criminal” John Bender stayed in character when the cameras stopped rolling, bullying co-star Molly, 56, to the point that director John Hughes almost fired him. Paul, now deceased, who played vice principal Vernon, defended Judd.

• Unusually for a film, it was shot in chronological sequence.

• Judd improvised the iconic closing of the film, when John raises hisfist in defiance as he walks away.

• Just like the end scene, the heart-wrenching “confession circle” scene, where each of the teens describes why they’re in detention, was all ad-libbed.

• The theme song of the movie,