Judd Nelson smirks as John Bender in The Breakfast Club - Universal Pictures John Hughes' "The Breakfast Club" is, for better or worse, the defining Generation X comedy. It was a box office hit during ...

Judd Nelson, who played rebellious bad boy John Bender, took his character so seriously that he essentially became him on set. His method acting irritated Hughes and created tension with the cast, ...

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, shared some insight ...