Hey Sydney: We’re Hosting An ’80s Dress-Up Screening Of ‘The Breakfast Club’, And You’re Invited
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Next Wednesday April 29, we’ll be hitting up Golden Age Cinema in Sydney to worship at the altar at John Hughes and — because it would be blasphemous to do otherwise — we’ll be doing this is in full ’80s costume.
Please don’t make us do this by ourselves. Come. Bring a friend. Anyone. Please.
Satisfying your dual loves of nostalgia and emotional air-punching, the main event of our next Junkee Movie Night night will be a screening of the 1985 classic The Breakfast Club. It features Molly Ringwald being peak Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez before The Mighty Ducks, and Judd Nelson long before he was just a middle-aged guy everyone thought was dead.
Setting the example for pretty much every film you watched as a teenager, it was easily one of the most influential films of its time, and also a major breakthrough for John Hughes as his sophomore directorial effort following on from Sixteen Candles. After that he went on to make Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Planes Trains and Automobiles, before writing ALL OF THE ’90s including the Home Alone series, Dennis The Menace, Beethoven, and Flubber.
To acknowledge all this, and celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary, we’ll be screening a short retrospective featurette before the film with ex-cast members and fellow filmmakers like Amy Heckerlin181 WordPress Update, 15 Plugin Updates, 2 Theme Updatesg (Clueless) and Diablo Cody (Juno), and we’d also love you to dress up as your best John Hughes’ character and join us for a drink beforehand.
Great outfits will be rewarded with tickets to movies, events and vouchers to free breakfast (get it?) at Paramount Coffee Project. A lack of outfits will be met with significant disappointment, but also understanding because, hey — The Breakfast Club taught us some shit.
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Junkee Movie Night: The Breakfast Club
Wednesday April 29: drinks and dress-ups from 7.30pm; screening begins 8.30pm sharp @ Golden Age Cinema and Bar, Surry Hills
For more information, head over to the Golden Age Cinema website.