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From: manheimer@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ken Manheimer)
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Subject: Re: The Breakfast Club (Yea!)
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 12:30:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 12:30:41 1985
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Here's another resounding recommendation for The Breakfast Club.  I
wish I had time to organize and present my thoughts about it; in brief,
intense (both positive, negative, and incidental) relationships that
form between a diverse collection of kids sentenced to a day of
detention are portrayed with conviction and sincerity, giving (me, at
least) a sense of genuine insight and contact between (and with) these
distinctly various people.  The editing and premise are at times a little
rough (did anybody else notice awkward gaps in the continuity of the
"encounter session" obviously due to edits?  Or get bothered by the
overcharacterization of the teacher?), but the acting is ~excellent.

Pause for breath.

I cherish those occasions when a film maker manages to convey a sense
of humanity and genuine energy in their films.  Some of the peculiar
(and some not so peculiar) films I've particularly enjoyed (that come
to mind just now) are:

Walkabout,
Oh Lucky Man,
Local Hero,
Casablanca,
Performance,
Little Big Man,
The Karate Kid (a recent surprise),
  I'm forgetting some, alas, but remembering to include:
The Breakfast Club.


etc,
Ken Manheimer		seismo!nbs-amrf!manheimer
			(Existence is influence.  Probably.)