Loads of kids wind up on detention in high school, and The Breakfast Club ($8) looks at 5 students in this very position. Written and directed by John Hughes and having a cast of 80’s heavyweights including Emilio Esteves, Judd Nelson. Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy, this 1985 movie has grown in stature over the years and is now a true classic. It is a very clever movie as the 5, who on paper have nothing in common, end up pouring their hearts out to each other and discovering that the perception they all have of each other is nowhere near the truth.
Apocalypse Now ($14) is the movie that almost killed Martin Sheen. Directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now is the story of a U.S. Army Captain veteran Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) and his secret assignment to travel through Vietnam, down the Nung River, to find and kill Special Forces Colonel Walter E. […]