Writer's Block: Don't You Forget about Me
This is a toughie. It's between almost any of Hughes' films. But I figure most all of my generation (and beyond) can point to the Breakfast Club as being one of the most accurate pictures of American teeanagerhood ever created. Not only did it clearly describe the various stereotypical roles into which most every kid fits, it also located them temporally and became a kind of iconic image of that particular place and time. Some might find the stereotyping problematic but I don't think there's an under-40-year-old alive in the United States who can truly say they don't identify with one or another of them, nor that they never knew anyone who did not fit into one of those roles.
Just for the record, I was "Allison."
Just for the record, I was "Allison."