This is what a young John Hughes heard with nearly every rejection ... In honor of The Breakfast Club’s 40th anniversary, we dragged these 40 trivia tidbits out of detention just for you.

4. The filmmakers wanted Anthony Michael Hall for Duckie, but he'd done four John Hughes films in two years -- two of them with Ringwald -- and didn't want to repeat himself. Fisher Stevens ...

The Hollywood star Molly Ringwald is reflecting on the relationship that she had with the late filmmaker John Hughes. He directed her in the 1980s classic movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, ...

When John Hughes wrote “The Breakfast Club,” he had his eyes set on the stage — not the big screen. Adam Fields oversaw the production of the iconic 1985 flick and, 40 years later ...