The Breakfast Club Story Location Tour & Filming Locations

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  • The Breakfast Club Story Location Tour & Filming Locations
    Visit the one and only filming location for "The Breakfast Club" in Des Plaines, Illinois and learn a bunch of fun stuff. Did you know Rick Moranis was originally cast as the janitor or that Ally Sheedy was an accomplished novelist before she was even a teenager, AND she even appeared on To Tell the Truth. Check out my video for so much more!
    Join us on an unforgettable journey as we take you through the iconic filming locations of "The Breakfast Club," the timeless classic that captured the essence of teenage angst and camaraderie. From the hallowed halls of Shermer High School to the quaint confines of the local library, immerse yourself in the world where five disparate teenagers formed an unexpected bond that transcended stereotypes.
    Walk in the footsteps of the Brat Pack as we revisit the places where John Hughes brought his vision to life. Discover behind-the-scenes trivia and anecdotes that will deepen your appreciation for this beloved film. Whether you're a die-hard fan or a casual admirer, this virtual tour promises to reignite your love for "The Breakfast Club" and offer a fresh perspective on its enduring legacy.
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  • @julietrask7497
    @julietrask7497 Рік тому +37

    I worked at the Westin Hotel at the time the whole cast stayed with us in Rosemont, Illinois, I was a concierge with 3 other girls. I was 19 and saw a lot of stuff I could gossip about but won’t . I received a whopping $350.00 tip after the production left town.That was a lot of money back then! Still stuck in Illinois working in finance. So I know after all these years I can’t afford to live in my home, California❤️

    • @vanessarivas3507
      @vanessarivas3507 Рік тому +1

      Omg!! What were the actors like?? Were they nice?

    • @TheChadWork2001
      @TheChadWork2001 10 місяців тому +4

      That's The Westin O'Hare hotel at 6100 North River Road, Rosemont, Illinois, 60018, correct? I'm going to be visiting the filming locations there and want to stay in the same hotel the actors stayed in. Thanks.

    • @TheChadWork2001
      @TheChadWork2001 10 місяців тому +5

      According to the U.S. Inflation calculator, the $350.00 tip you received in 1984 would be equivalent to about $1,028.00 today, in July 30, 2023.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому +4

      I'm so sorry for the delay in responding to this comment. So sorry! I love that you shared this. That IS a ton of money, and I hope someone pays you a lot more to spill thew tea some time, haha!

    • @Asian_Kid
      @Asian_Kid 9 місяців тому +1

      Were the actors nice?

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 Рік тому +19

    Ally Sheedy was in home alone 2 working in the front desk at the airport and told Kevin, that's New York sir.

    • @Foodledoodle1
      @Foodledoodle1 10 місяців тому +1

      Guess I just learned something new lol

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  2 місяці тому +1

      Great connection!

    • @peterhuber1702
      @peterhuber1702 Місяць тому

      and you'd hardly recognize her.....ua-cam.com/video/GoV_YVq6KbA/v-deo.html

    • @j.d.contreras392
      @j.d.contreras392 Місяць тому +2

      Ally Sheedy was my favorite character. Watchin her eat that Captain Crunch sandwich with tons of sugar was ICONIC.🤣🤣

    • @MissAshley-jq9gl
      @MissAshley-jq9gl Місяць тому

      And she put salt packets on it ​@@j.d.contreras392

  • @marilynrenaud1892
    @marilynrenaud1892 3 місяці тому +12

    The Breakfast Club is one of my all time favorite movies. Excellent story and cast. Outstanding acting. I have seen it numerous times and I also own the DVD. I'll never stop watching it.

  • @ChrisRoth1972
    @ChrisRoth1972 4 місяці тому +15

    The Breakfast Club was the Masterpiece of a flick in 1985.
    I miss movies made like this.
    Thank You for this Video!!!!!!

  • @Bdhstl95
    @Bdhstl95 Місяць тому +4

    I graduated in 1987 and went to Illinois State University. Lots of my college friends were from Des Plaines and had both John Hughes n John Wayne Gacy stories.
    I went into advertising in STL and one of my copywriters worked with John Hughes in Chicago at the same agency saying he really didn’t like advertising. My writer created the Hamburger Helper 🤚 hand!!

  • @Escape5150
    @Escape5150 Рік тому +16

    All these "problems" with the movie really aren't problems

  • @loriepostlewaite162
    @loriepostlewaite162 Рік тому +15

    I find it interesting how young people these days get so offended by this movie but times have changed so it’s good to stay open minded like a lot of people do lol but this movie is still genius regardless of genre’…great video thanks for sharing 👍

    • @jckhammer
      @jckhammer 11 місяців тому +5

      Realky ? I havent heard about that. What are they possibly getting offended by ? I find the kids these days of that age a hundred times worse than 1985 kids

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for watching!!! I think its still a genius film too.

    • @user-uz8ou7uy5q
      @user-uz8ou7uy5q 25 днів тому

      Right? It never occurred to me for a micro second that there was some “lack of diversity” in this movie.
      So glad I grew up in the 80s. The kids today are like little Dixie cups… The 70s and 80s was most awesome decades to be young in.

    • @christheghostwriter
      @christheghostwriter 9 днів тому

      Please identify a young person who is "so offended" by this movie

    • @christheghostwriter
      @christheghostwriter 9 днів тому

      ​@@user-uz8ou7uy5q your lack of self awareness is astonishing

  • @abunchahooey
    @abunchahooey 2 місяці тому +4

    Hi, I’m an actual person who attended high school in the 80’s. This movie depicted life in that era pretty accurately. But I’d have to say the main things that were different back then was nobody was comparing or emulating celebs or social media influencers and we were pretty busy working on school work, after school jobs, actually talking to each other and doing things outdoors. And while I’m sure students were stereotyped back then, I don’t remember anybody being triggered or woke or being so sensitive to every perceived slight towards them. I feel like we were a lot more mature, resilient and in the grand scheme didn’t really give a big crap what others thought of us. I feel bad for kids today who are so dependent on their phone screens and living up to social media standards.

    • @sub-jec-tiv
      @sub-jec-tiv Місяць тому

      💯

    • @dianagruver5767
      @dianagruver5767 27 днів тому

      Agree!

    • @christheghostwriter
      @christheghostwriter 9 днів тому

      What does "woke" mean? Please be specific.

    • @christheghostwriter
      @christheghostwriter 9 днів тому

      I always find it hilarious when old white people complain about how everyone's so sensitive now. No, people aren't more sensitive than they used to be. It's just that straight white people are no longer the only ones who get to speak up. Just because you're not used to black people, brown people, gay people, and trans people actually speaking up and speaking out doesn't mean that people are more sensitive now

  • @coffeeis4closers
    @coffeeis4closers Рік тому +7

    You're absolutely right. I graduated from high-school in 1984 and lived this. I was never in detention but in trouble yes. This movie is one of my favorite. Its Smithsonian type accurate.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому +1

      Love this comment! Smithsonian type accurate, hahahaha

  • @sharonlegg85
    @sharonlegg85 9 місяців тому +5

    Love, love, love this film. Must have watched this at least 30 times. Again another great video which again I have learnt so much more than where it was filmed. Thank you Justin ❤️

  • @neonvandal8770
    @neonvandal8770 Рік тому +12

    Fantastic video mate. I had a similar school experience back in the mid 80's - im a mixed race guy who went to an inner city school in the u.k with kids from all corners of the world and every colour. I then moved out to a more suburban school with a 97% white population, and even though it was in the uk, we totally related to the Breakfast Club - we were the same age, dressed similar, and we already listened to all that 80s New Wave Music. BC is a very perceptive and heartfelt snapshot of 80s teen life - warts and all, regardless of colour/gender because we ALL have the same basic fears and we ALL want to belong at that age. I cant speak for the U.S, but schools generally are a lot more diverse now over here, but the truths of John Hughes films are the same. RIP John, and thanks for your understanding and empathy for us 80s kids 🙏

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому +1

      I love this comment so much. So many people got mad at me for pointing the races of the characters out, but its just a fact. Love what you said!

    • @neonvandal8770
      @neonvandal8770 9 місяців тому

      ​@@TheJustinRootShow No worries mate and thanks again for the great video - You made an old (ish) man very nostalgic! 👍🎬

    • @natalie199077
      @natalie199077 3 дні тому

      "To Sir with love" more likely!🤔

  • @jimmyb2471
    @jimmyb2471 6 місяців тому +2

    I remember watching this movie as a 14 year old and loved it so much that I purposely tried to get saturday detention, instead I got regular detention during the weekday :P they didnt allow us to talk and just do homework or read a book.

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 Рік тому +9

    Emilio Estevez was the only member of his family to not change his name.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому

      Love that about him. Solid guy.

    • @Ontheroxxwithsalt
      @Ontheroxxwithsalt Місяць тому

      Um, I'm pretty sure his sister, who acted in Heathers, also went by Estevez.

  • @nicholaszvalentine9765
    @nicholaszvalentine9765 Рік тому +6

    Wow, the transformation Judd Nelson did for this roll is superb!

  • @QuincyDisneyVegan
    @QuincyDisneyVegan 9 місяців тому +6

    Great video! Thank you for taking us inside the building! I'm a huge fan of The Breakfast Club movie that's seen and analyzed it literally hundreds of times since I first saw it back in the 80's at a drive in theater in Los Angeles, and I really don't see why people are trying to cancel it. If you think about it, Anthony Michael Hall's character Brian and Ally Sheedy's "Allison, The Basket Case" are the queers in the film, as I totally relate to them both the most because i myself was a basket case child, that initially grew up very nerd appearing, introverted, shy and only knowing I was gay, until I turned 27 (I'm now 46) when I realized I'm attracted to women also but not as much as men who I'm more interested in. If you consider how Anthony Michael Hall is in that interview clip dressed Androgenous as David Bowie did during that era and the way he speaks in real life, Brian definitely is the gay character. Allison was Emo before it became a thing, and it can be read as a subtext that she was really bisexual or pansexual, both attracted to Claire who transformed her and to Emilio's character Andrew who she hooked up with. Furthermore, if you think about it, Claire, Bender, and Andrew also could be closeted both gay and bisexual characters who haven't yet come accepted themselves fully, mostly extroverted (Bender and Claire who end up hooking up), but subtly introverted (Andrew, the Jock). Every student character in the film can be seen as falling somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, rebels and badasses in their own right that had home life issues which fed into the crimes they committed and led them to detention which reveals they share allot in common which unites them as friends and potential love interests. Therefore, the only thing this film is guilty of is not representing anyone that isn't Caucasian. But given that at least 3 cast members were pre selected for this film, this was filmed in 1984 and set in the suburbs of Illinois and we're only seeing a fraction of the students that attended that school (and Carl the janitor and the Principal aren't stereotypically portrayed by black actors), "The Breakfast Club" is therefore a product of it's time, casting convenience, it represents everyone uniquely, and really can't be seen as racist or prejudice.

  • @missytwist3705
    @missytwist3705 Місяць тому +1

    I live in Des Plaines IL. I turned 59 on May 4th. I loved this movie. My niece is 23. I asked her if it is still the case that high school experience is the same as far as the different groups. She said it still rings true.

  • @SteveCornelius
    @SteveCornelius 10 місяців тому +6

    John Hughes attended Glenbrook North High School (located in Northbrook, Illinois) and graduated in 1969, a year before me. Interestingly, the village of Northbrook was originally named Shermerville. That may have been where he got the fictional name of Shermer.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому +2

      Yes! You're exactly spot on with this. He did.

    • @scoot4348
      @scoot4348 7 місяців тому

      ​​@@TheJustinRootShow There is a Shermer Rd not far from the former Maine North high school. I grew up a block from Shermer Rd.
      There's another building near what was Maine North, just to the north. It was once Apollo Junior High.

  • @kevinsunderman4432
    @kevinsunderman4432 2 роки тому +6

    That's the way High School was in the 1980's!!!! This is my FAV Movie of ALL TIME!!!! Excellent Review! Shame you couldn't stay in the High School Longer!!

  • @MedardKrzisnik
    @MedardKrzisnik 11 місяців тому +2

    Excellent work, a very thorough presentation of the many aspects of our beloved movie, The Breakfast Club! Thank you sir!

  • @2manyShook1s
    @2manyShook1s 2 місяці тому +1

    I went took a picture there right before news year, then I took my daughter out to the home alone house , the shameless house . It was such a awesome time and my daughter loves 80s movies now

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Місяць тому +1

    i have video from THE JOHN HUGES RETROSPECTIVE i think it was filmed in 2004. these two guys get a sneak peak into the building. it also have lots of other Hughes filming location footage

  • @nicholaszvalentine9765
    @nicholaszvalentine9765 Рік тому +5

    Ferris Bueller lecture hall scene was filmed here too!

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому +1

      Yes! Love that connection. I think I pointed it out in my Ferris Bueller tour.

  • @donnerdonner315
    @donnerdonner315 2 роки тому +2

    Another great video Justin!!! This movie and "Pretty In Pink" were my absolute favorite John Hughes films!!! Can't wait for your next post...keep up the AWESOMENESS...LOL!!!

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you much! I LOVE Pretty in Pink. One of the few John Hughes movies filmed in LA

    • @donnerdonner315
      @donnerdonner315 2 роки тому

      @@TheJustinRootShow You're so welcome...as always Justin! You really are a talented and amazing artist! Keep up the great work...really loving your content!!!
      I had no idea that Pretty in Pink was filmed here in L.A.! Now that could make a cool location video for the future....fingers crossed🤞LOL!!!😄

  • @adamk8197
    @adamk8197 2 роки тому +4

    Great video! Can’t believe you got inside. I haven’t seen anyone be able to get inside

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  2 роки тому +5

      Thank you! I wish I could’ve seen more or stayed longer inside. Covid played a huge part in it. I might try some other time. Really appreciate the comment.

    • @shutitup68
      @shutitup68 2 роки тому +2

      I found a video a few years ago of a guy that went inside the gym where they shot the whole movie.

  • @woodrowbunopaddle
    @woodrowbunopaddle 2 роки тому +5

    Justin , Keep making videos like this and your viewership will blow up. A lot of videos on movies like this on UA-cam ,but you go the extra step. Dynamite work !! 14:35 Trading Spaces ?

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому

      Thank you, I'm so sorry for the delay in replying. Yes, I said Trading Spaces instead of Trading Places. I think I got a contact high from whatever the Breakfast Club was smoking.

  • @Oshiiiiiiiiiiii
    @Oshiiiiiiiiiiii 2 місяці тому

    Excellent video!! I couldn't stop watching!

  • @melindawakley7859
    @melindawakley7859 Рік тому +2

    I really enjoyed this. All the info you included. So many of us identified with this movie back then. I’m so glad this movie shows other generations what assholes some teachers were to us. And what they got away with. Not all teachers behaved badly. But we understood, they were running our lives, completely. And there was no negotiating that in that era. To make your own choices like what channel TV station you watched li, or to be allowed to speak up and give an opinion on something, you left home. And it’s why 80’s kids left home early, most at 18. I left home at 17 and never returned. Some of us got kicked out at 18. U were often not allowed to move back home. Parents then saw that as doing you a favour, so u could learn to stand on your own 2 feet. Irrespective of whether u actually had a job somewhere to stay, or not. Usually, There was no careful launching your child into adulthood in the 80’s as there is today. You were expected to enrol yourself into university, a technical skill, pay for driving lessons yourself. I’m astounded how kids today are over cared for. How do they survive in the real world? We had adult skills very early. Some of us didn’t make it, cause we were out in the world, completely naive learning as we went.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому

      Thank you Melinda! Was a wild time to grow up in.

  • @pilarlaudell7873
    @pilarlaudell7873 Рік тому +1

    Awesome thank you for sharing this !

  • @famousatmidnight15
    @famousatmidnight15 4 місяці тому +1

    The Simple Minds song “Don’t you forget about me” was the only song in their collection they didn’t write themselves. It was purpose written for them and the movie.

  • @ksmsailing
    @ksmsailing 7 місяців тому

    My favorite movie of all time. Nothing else sums up teenage life in one (rather bland) setting. Yet another fabulous video, Justin!

  • @Auhbseluhte
    @Auhbseluhte 25 днів тому +1

    3 o clock high took place entirely in a HS setting. thats a great movie to do a video on

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 Рік тому +5

    Kids could smoke weed in the library in the 80s.

    • @RageTVHTX
      @RageTVHTX 4 місяці тому

      No not anywhere around the school either. Never saw evidence of it at the schools I went to

  • @karlvenske8337
    @karlvenske8337 2 місяці тому +5

    How do people get offended by this movie

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  2 місяці тому +2

      I don't know anyone who is offended by this movie.

  • @shirleyblack7047
    @shirleyblack7047 7 місяців тому

    This is too nostalgic for me.growing up, in the 80's those days where unique for everyone who really enjoy the fashion, the music!!! And life. Being in situation similar to it; some of my friends are not among us, but those days were amazing they always in my mind. I guess it happens to anyone who cares of others. Thanks for this special video about this great film!!!
    Love the 80's forever!!!

  • @ThePerezHilton
    @ThePerezHilton 2 роки тому +1

    This was fab! x

  • @jatzbethstappen9814
    @jatzbethstappen9814 7 місяців тому

    Such a great video thanks!

  • @turnerification123
    @turnerification123 11 місяців тому +1

    I love that movie and every high school has these kids.

  • @TheKurtsPlaceChannel
    @TheKurtsPlaceChannel 4 місяці тому

    Very nice video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.

  • @sandraross68
    @sandraross68 Рік тому +1

    LOVED this movie!!!

  • @FollowYourFeet-jg9eh
    @FollowYourFeet-jg9eh 5 місяців тому

    Great video! Thanks!

  • @triciashelmandine2532
    @triciashelmandine2532 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for doing this video

  • @user-zk6yr9io9s
    @user-zk6yr9io9s 3 місяці тому

    this is awesome..thank you

  • @esliet
    @esliet 3 місяці тому

    One of my favorite movies , brings back memories of that time. I agree not diverse at all and full of crazy dialogue but sadly so 80s. Great video TY

  • @rickyrickardo4913
    @rickyrickardo4913 11 місяців тому +1

    Absolutely love that movie. Always will ❤️

  • @kawasakiz76
    @kawasakiz76 5 місяців тому

    Great video!! ❤

  • @rinohunter6190
    @rinohunter6190 10 місяців тому +1

    Great video

  • @scottxxyy8313
    @scottxxyy8313 2 роки тому +2

    Nice job! Do you have any vids on the Planet Of The Apes?

  • @chocolatetownforever7537
    @chocolatetownforever7537 Рік тому +1

    Awesome video. Totally off topic, but I remember Des Plaines Ill for two other major news stories. The crash of American Airlines flight 191 at O' Hare Airport, and the location of John Wayne Gacy's house. When you say Des Plaines is a suburb of Chicago, how big of a city or town is it? Is it close to where "The Breakfast Club" was filmed at? And did you visit either place when you filmed it?
    I know its a much more macabre subject than what this video is related to, but I was just wondering lol.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  Рік тому +1

      First of all thank you for the kind comment. Second of all I am sooo embarrassed to admit that I had no idea about the plane crash or that John Wayne Gacy lived there!! It seems like a small town but I’m surprised I didn’t know that. Next time I’m in Chicago I’ll have to check out his house. Maybe… lol

    • @SteveCornelius
      @SteveCornelius 10 місяців тому +2

      Maine North HS was located in the northeast portion of Des Plaines. The DC-10 crash was on the other side of the city and northwest of O’Hare Field off of Touhy Avenue. I drove by the site a number of times when I lived in Des Plaines and always got an eerie feeling knowing that 273 souls were taken that day.

  • @waffle3239
    @waffle3239 2 місяці тому +1

    If I'm right the front of the high school for Ferris Bueller was shot at the same location.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  2 місяці тому

      Different school actually. I showed that school in my Ferris Bueller Story Location Tour.

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 Рік тому +3

    Paul Gleason was a cop in die hard, partnering with Carl Winslow.

  • @classrockin
    @classrockin 4 місяці тому +1

    There's a commemorative plaque on the wall in one of the hallways regarding the filming of the Breakfast Club. One of the other UA-cam personalities was able to gain access to most of the building, might have been Adam The Woo....can't remember for sure.

  • @willboa5365
    @willboa5365 4 місяці тому

    Slight Correction on data - Actress Ally Sheedy was 23 year - shes born 1962 / Moly Ringwold born 1968 was 17 when filming Breakfast Club / Anthony Michael Hall was 16 years old .

  • @triciashelmandine2532
    @triciashelmandine2532 4 місяці тому +1

    It shouldn't get remade it's a masterpiece yes that's how the 80s was just like the 50s and 60s and 70s were different I will say this that's how the 80s was but in my opinion the 80s was easy things change but look at society now I think it's way worse the things they are allowing schools are still like this Just in a different way there's still jocks there's still the smart kids there is still the burn outs as they called them back them and there is still the rich stuck up kids that hasn't changed it's just a different time

  • @SigmoidConMan
    @SigmoidConMan 10 місяців тому +2

    It’s crazy to believe that John Hughes was only a month older than my uncle since they were born the same year but one month apart.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому

      Ha! It's crazy when you put a little math on people's ages and do some comparisons. Trippy stuff.

    • @SigmoidConMan
      @SigmoidConMan 9 місяців тому

      @@TheJustinRootShow Actually, my bad! John Hughes was actually nine months older than my uncle. Brain burp! 🫢

  • @purple292000
    @purple292000 Рік тому +2

    who had the role of the parent picking Brian johnson up , at the end?
    I had a coat very similar to Mrs. Johnson's.

    • @jckhammer
      @jckhammer 11 місяців тому +2

      The writer and creator of the movie , John Hughes . He played the part of Brian's dad

  • @natalie199077
    @natalie199077 3 дні тому

    Those where the good times "innocence reigned" more so than now "disturbed innocence" "identity confusion"! No matter what anyone says now it is all psychological!

  • @abunchahooey
    @abunchahooey 2 місяці тому

    I’ve already made a comment, but would like to commend Justin on showing clips relevant to the subject he’s talking about, and I’ve seen other shots of the outside of the “school” but God bless Justin for turning around and showing across the street. Drives me crazy when shots are zoomed in on the subject but we viewers have no reference point. Don’t know if that makes sense. ETA: I about choked when you showed your play ticket stub and where you went to HS! 😂

  • @PeterShieldsukcatstripey
    @PeterShieldsukcatstripey 8 місяців тому

    Love that building and love the film. What a thrill to see this so close up. Thank you mate.

  • @slw0599
    @slw0599 Рік тому +1

    Your videos are excellent! More please and keep up the great work👍👌🔥

    • @achosenone44
      @achosenone44 10 місяців тому

      making the sign for the sicko demonic lieng loser devil sign!!!

  • @Mintylight
    @Mintylight Місяць тому

    THANK YOU about the silly makeover! Like wth? You wanna go from sticking out to boring...? She was never that extreme to begin with. Oh, heavy eye liner, my goodness. seems like such a fun trip, good for you. :)

  • @PeterShieldsukcatstripey
    @PeterShieldsukcatstripey 8 місяців тому +1

    A think it was a gnostic tale, which is why it was set in a library, which represents knowledge. I noticed that Judd played the destroyer, like a Lucifer character that antagonised and questioned but was hidden from the teacher under the desk - who represented the demiurge. So a Genesis type story but a gnostic version as through knowledge of self rather than obedience they found redemption. Fist of defiance and light of liberation - mimicking the statue of liberty.

  • @ebbertgepner
    @ebbertgepner 4 місяці тому

    Farris Bueller's Day Off and also the interior of the house from Home Alone was built in this HS's gymnasium.

  • @ASThompson-pp3pq
    @ASThompson-pp3pq Місяць тому

    I wonder if the library is still inside the Police Station there?

  • @slw0599
    @slw0599 Рік тому +2

    Trading places next?

  • @ut561
    @ut561 4 місяці тому

    while the movie was in the theaters I was able to walk around inside the building.

  • @wd2518
    @wd2518 3 місяці тому +1

    How can you not have your phone charged at such a time?

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  2 місяці тому

      Terrible terrible error. I was visiting and didn't expect to get to go in.

  • @ericwright1840
    @ericwright1840 6 місяців тому

    Shermerville is original name for Northbrook Illinois.Where John Hughes grew up and went to school.

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 Рік тому +1

    These students learn something, but not from their books.

  • @arianprofit
    @arianprofit Рік тому +1

    “I don’t wanna blow my ride”.

  • @jamesluke6603
    @jamesluke6603 Рік тому +1

    I love The Breakfast Club movie and Ms. Molly Ringwald is still the Queen.
    Thank you for sharing this video

  • @eauhomme
    @eauhomme 7 місяців тому

    1:25 Obvious one-location movie, in fact with 95%+ taking place in one room in the movie, "Twelve Angry Men".
    The entire movie takes place at a courthouse, with almost all of it in the jury room. There is a brief intro in the courtroom, a brief period in a restroom where jurors are talking, and an outro where two jurors exchange names. Despite the minimal location, it is a great movie.

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Місяць тому

    he wrote those scrips FAST!

  • @timlabell
    @timlabell 3 місяці тому

    I believe that Alfred Hitchcocks movie 🎬 Rear Window with Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart was filmed in one room.🤔 one place.

  • @johntoobie6
    @johntoobie6 Рік тому +1

    1:38 Uncle Buck may have used this site....wait I think that was the old New Trier school near Loyola Academy

  • @arianprofit
    @arianprofit Рік тому +3

    Omg Jim Carrey? That would’ve been interesting. But Judds the only Bender.

  • @FlushCut
    @FlushCut 2 місяці тому

    18:36 Let the record show. You can record ALL public areas of public buildings. Permission from your government is not required.

  • @arianprofit
    @arianprofit Рік тому +1

    14:36 *Trading Places

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 Рік тому +1

    Kids spending Saturday detention for doing bad things at school.

  • @TheNuckinFoob
    @TheNuckinFoob 4 місяці тому +1

    You pronounced Des Plaines correctly. I lived in Chicago, grew up there. I saw this the Saturday after it premiered (2/16/85) at Norridge theaters. Norridge was one of the first multiplex theaters in the area. They had 9 screens which was insane compared to the Roy Rogers or Patio Theater.
    Such an amazing movie, even to this day. My only gripe is that Molly Ringwald was John Hughes go to sex appeal. Every movie she was in had women that were much more beautiful, it never made sense to me.
    Anyone upset by older art and getting offended by it due to today's ridiculous standards of virtue signaling needs to grow up.
    All being offended does is tell the world that you're incapable of controlling your own emotions and want others to do it for you. That's ridiculous. Stop being pathetic.

  • @fu2201
    @fu2201 Рік тому

    The theme song is easy to play its just the chords F-A and G

  • @vogmar1
    @vogmar1 3 місяці тому

    0:53 🤣

  • @andyhoms2001
    @andyhoms2001 Місяць тому

    *Trading Places* not *Trading Spaces* lol

  • @slw0599
    @slw0599 8 місяців тому

    Wasnt Nicholas cage originally supposed to play bender?

  • @SiAnon
    @SiAnon 6 днів тому

    As for people complaining about this movie being this or that and not conforming to their deluded way of thinking i can only complain that they are not thinking in a way kids will in 40 years. See, not possible to do is it. Nobody could predict in 1984 ( i was 14 at the time) what weird and strange ways people would be offended 40 years later.
    Nobody can predict the future and nobody can change the past. Deal with it or stfu.

  • @SuV33358
    @SuV33358 Рік тому +3

    I had 2 black people in all my school grades. Kindergarten til grade 12. (1975-1988) And zero black teachers. It was a different world then, where i lived... in the north east suburbs/farmlands....and no im not prejudiced at all. It's just what i grew up with. Call it the proverbial 'white bubble'

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  9 місяців тому +2

      I was one of maybe 20 white kids in an all black high school my Freshman year and then my family moved to Indiana and we had a handful of black kids. Different regions of America explain so much about diversity and culture.

    • @SuV33358
      @SuV33358 9 місяців тому +1

      @@TheJustinRootShow yes and different generations differ so much too. My son has pointed out that I seem a little prejudiced sometimes. I don't mean to be, but he can tell I grew up in a different time. And my father? Forget it. That was waaay different times.

    • @Bdhstl95
      @Bdhstl95 Місяць тому +1

      Only 1 black girl in my whole school. She was a cheerleader. Central Illinois farm country, we are not discriminating against anyone they just don’t live here cause there are few black farmers. Families have farmed here for over 100 years.

    • @dianagruver5767
      @dianagruver5767 27 днів тому

      Same for me.

  • @arianprofit
    @arianprofit Рік тому +4

    Honestly I don’t think Emilio was good in this. Not a athlete or actor. Idk just my opinion. Thank goodness Judd and Anthony were in there. Love Allison.

    • @TheChadWork2001
      @TheChadWork2001 10 місяців тому +3

      I agree. I don't think he can really act. He has a robotic, expressionless face.

  • @HiSpeedDrifter
    @HiSpeedDrifter 9 місяців тому

    Nicolas Cage might have played the role too eccentrically.

  • @SpaceCattttt
    @SpaceCattttt Місяць тому

    You're probably right: The Breakfast Club would most likely not get made today. But not because it's offensive. No, because things today suck.
    They suck because anything with an edge has been airbrushed and nothing can be allowed to offend anyone or anything.
    Well, what about if I find the lack of genuine human behaviour offensive? What if it gets on my nerves that artists aren't allowed to express themselves
    honestly anymore without getting cancelled? What if I call that fascism? Perhaps then, more films like The Breakfast Club will get made?
    I just have to be offended the LOUDEST...

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  Місяць тому

      Thank you for atleast understanding that what I said wasn't necessarily my "opinion." Nothing about this movie offends me. I love this movie. I just simply said it would never be made today.

  • @davidkornblatt851
    @davidkornblatt851 4 місяці тому

    90% of reservoir dogs was shot in one place!!!

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  2 місяці тому

      A lot of it yes but that movie actually has a handful of other locations.

  • @devrongrant2183
    @devrongrant2183 13 днів тому

    I don't think the lack of diversity is an issue -- at all. I'll explain why -- our schools are STILL largely de-facto segregated (based on socio-economic status and who lives in the neighborhood.) It's TOTALLY plausible even in 2024, but especially in 1984 that five caucasian kids would be in detention.
    I don't think the characters need to be diverse for me to see myself in John or in Claire or in Allison or in Brian. And now that I'm old, in Carl and Mr. Vernon - lol.

  • @farrellmcnulty909
    @farrellmcnulty909 Місяць тому

    I'm sick to death of all this bullshit about cancelling non-diverse movies which were made nearly 40 years ago, and saying that "that's how it was then" was a poor excuse for not casting actors the public demanded. If it was so important back then, why not say anything THEN?

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  Місяць тому +1

      Who is canceling this movie? I made this documentary because I love the movie. Nowhere is anyone cancelling it. Weird comment.

    • @farrellmcnulty909
      @farrellmcnulty909 Місяць тому +1

      @@TheJustinRootShow No, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. I was referring to people bitching about other older stuff - although Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald think a proper remake (if there is one) would feature a diverse cast. I just don't know what the hell for. Just don't remake it.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  Місяць тому

      @@farrellmcnulty909 Thanks for clarifying 👍

  • @prod.lilbrad6522
    @prod.lilbrad6522 Рік тому +1

    i dont understand why u had to bring politics into the breakfast club. like its just a damn movie

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  Рік тому

      I didn’t “bring politics” into it. Thanks for watching.

  • @samkeepintherockalive
    @samkeepintherockalive 27 днів тому

    They have to bring "diversity". Who gives a s**t!. Goddamn wokeness is sickening! This was a great film just like it was!

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  27 днів тому

      Sorry that the mere mention of diversity triggers you but thank you for watching.

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Місяць тому

    did you hear what molly ringwald said about being white. she needs to shut up

  • @Ontheroxxwithsalt
    @Ontheroxxwithsalt Місяць тому

    I'm sorry but for the vast majority of kids in America in 1984 this was what it was like. The whole diversity crap is played out. Nobody is stopping anybody from making their own movies. Why would John Hughes know what life is like in an all black school? That's just a weird take.
    Love it or hate it for its lack of diversity there is a reason this is the number ONE movie of that era. And there is a reason the 80's is WIDELY regarded as the best decade. And no amount of boo hooing is going to change that. Sorry. Not sorry. The 80's was the last decent decade before this country became trash. lmao

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  Місяць тому

      What an unhinged comment to a joke I made about detention. Feel better soon.

  • @twospot7Seven
    @twospot7Seven 27 днів тому

    Watch a movie for what it is - don't talk about DEI garbage.

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  27 днів тому

      You make your own videos and I'll make mine. Thanks for watching.

    • @twospot7Seven
      @twospot7Seven 27 днів тому

      @@TheJustinRootShow Ok.

  • @odeliogarcia4103
    @odeliogarcia4103 Рік тому +4

    Too woke YT

    • @TheJustinRootShow
      @TheJustinRootShow  Рік тому

      There’s nothing woke about it. Thank you for watching

    • @MissterX
      @MissterX Рік тому +3

      @@TheJustinRootShow There certainly is lol, you bitching about the lack of diversity in the film and complaining about words. A bunch of white kids still live in the Illinois suburbs and lbtgq plus plus plus are still a tiny fraction of society. He represented life as it was and how he knew it. It's also a huge iconic hit because it doesn't pander to 2% of society. The movies that do never make money and aren't remembered.

  • @friskyminx6424
    @friskyminx6424 4 місяці тому

    Woke .. entitled to rewrite history.

  • @PeterShieldsukcatstripey
    @PeterShieldsukcatstripey 8 місяців тому

    Love the old footage.

  • @1956fink
    @1956fink Місяць тому

    I lived in those apartment buildings in 1979.