playing Bender there, one of a group of high school misfits spending a Saturday together in detention. In fact, another document reveals an early title of the movie was "Saturday Breakfast Club." ...

The five eclectic members of “The Breakfast Club” — “a brain, an athlete, a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal” — are the blueprint for Hollywood’s American high school.

Surprising Fact: While John Bender may have been a thorn in the side of the school's authority figures, Judd Nelson was reportedly a well-behaved student during his own high school days.

Del Griffith from ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ lives two doors down from John Bender [from ‘The Breakfast Club ... we see the exterior of Shermer High School and hear Anthony Michael ...