Directed by John Hughes, The Breakfast Club was filmed in an incredible 46 minutes – a full 47 minutes less than its actual running time.

Based on the book “Life’s so hard for us teens :(“ The Breakfast Club follows five ragtag teens as they attempt to prove to each other that they’ve all got it so hard. The magnitude of their struggles in life is emphasized when it’s revealed in the final act that the entire movie is set during the Great Depression, the school is a prison, and the actors are all actually Irish immigrants.

The story begins with each of the actors eating a club sandwich for breakfast, giving the film its name. They then traverse the biting cold to “school” where they have “detention.” Of course we find out later they’ve been sentenced to voluntary life-in-prison sentences for hoarding potatoes.

Over the course of the next 15 minutes we’re introduced to all of the characters and their respective struggles.

John Bender: The ‘rebel’ of the group, Bender is actually a victim of child abuse. As an example, his mother once spanked him. With her hand. On his bottom. This tragic story is told through tears by Bender as the other Clubbers sit Indian-style holding hands and reassuring him it wasn’t his fault his room was “a mess”

Andrew Clark: The ‘athlete’ of the group. Clark must deal with his over-bearing father insisting he become a basketball phenom, despite being 5’3”.

Claire Standish: The ‘girl’ of the group. Standish’s parents insist on him wearing a dress and having scraggly long red hair despite him being a gangly freckled teen boy.

Allison Reynolds: The ‘basket case’ of the group. Reynolds bears the unfortunate burden of being a “diehard fan of Bon Jovi.” Quite possibly the most shameful secret to reveal.

Brian Johnson: The ‘brains’ of the group. Johnson is a 38 year old singer surrounded by teens. At the end of the movie he walks into the library with his head down and tears flowing before finally admitting he’s in “AC/DC.” “I’m so sorry guys, I let you all down. I wish I could’ve just been beaten by my parents.”

In 1973 Angus and Malcolm Young decided to take the same song they’d been playing for 5 years and start a band around it. After hours of reading the bottoms of toasters, blow driers, and sewing machines, they finally settled on the name Made in Taiwan.

Unfortunately there was a backlash looming against products manufactured outside of their native Australia (whose only remaining export was crocodile skin boots), so they were sent back to the drawing board. Finally they emerged with the name AC/DC.

In 1974 Bon Scott joined the band and began singing their one song.

By 1975 they’d completed their first nine song single – T.N.T. It featured the song T.N.T. along with the song T.N.T. under different names. It was an instant hit in Australia, reaching #1 on the charts and earning the band several hundred koala pelts.

Their next single, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, was released in 1976. It featured 9 more of the same song. Australians couldn’t get enough of the song. An album was sold for every house in the country – meaning the album went quadruple oxidized copper by American standards.

Unfortunately in 1980 Bon Scott died while performing on stage. He was in the middle of singing T.N.T. and forgot the words midway through it. An autopsy determined his brain had atrophied into the consistency of unstirred pudding from constant exposure to AC/DC.

Bon Scott was replaced by Brian Johnson, and the band released another 15 albums over the next five years – an incredible feat considering the band had not been in the studio since the original recording of T.N.T. in 1974.

Throughout the 80s AC/DC continued releasing the same album. Each time they grew more and more successful – though they were paying the price by being subjected to their own music. Angus Young was affected the most – physically shrinking from 6’0” to 5’2” over the course of the 80s due to the weight of his own terrible music resting on his shoulders.

In 2008 the band released their autobiography “T.N.T.: 35 Years of Our Hit” In the foreword Malcolm Young is quoted as saying “We threw the same s#@! at the wall for 35 years, and it kept sticking. By the end of our careers the wall is covered in s#@! and it stinks in here. I wish I could escape my life, but I’m afraid if I kill myself they’ll be playing my own music in Hell.”