Brat Pack America

and the hallways where the cast flees Principal Vernon were used a year later in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, where students try to collect money for Ferris’s “illness”

The Breakfast Club’s title arrived via the son of one of Hughes’s friends, who told him the name kids gave Saturday morning detention at nearby New Trier High School.

After his death in 2009, Hughes’s sons found hundreds of notebooks and digital files of screenplays not made, novels and short stories never published.