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Breakfast Club stars Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy reunited in New York, 41 years after the movie came out.
The actresses had fans feeling nostalgic for the 1985 John Hughes film.
Ringwald recently weighed in on the possibility of remaking the movie, saying that it’s such a relic of the time that it would be hard to replicate the nostalgia factor.
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The Breakfast Club stars Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, who appeared as Claire Standish and Allison Reynolds, respectively, in the iconic 1985 movie, reunited in New York to celebrate Ringwald’s role in the off-Broadway drama play Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been.
“Very special week! My sister, Beth + my movie sister from another mister, Ally, came to see me onstage! 💗,” Ringwald wrote. “Come see ‘Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been’ at NY City Center! Only till Aug 2!”
The reunion, which happened more than 40 years after the John Hughes film hit theaters, had fans feeling nostalgic. “Awwww ALLY! Tons of memories filming The Breakfast Club!!! Sweet 🤩🫶🏻 🎥 💗,” one person wrote.
“Legends/ you ladies left a mark on my generation that will never be erased/ thank you for being some of the many people who made the 80s / the greatest decade ever,” another said.
“The Princess and the Basketcase ❤️,” a third chimed in, referring to how Ringwald and Sheedy’s characters signed the letter to Vice Principal Vernon at the end of the movie.
Ringwald and Sheedy, along with Judd Nelson, Emilio Estèvez, and Anthony Michael Hall reunited in Chicago in 2025 for the movie’s 40th anniversary. During their panel, Ringwald addressed why the 1985 film can’t be remade.
“I personally don’t believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time,” she said.
“It resonates with people today. I believe in making movies that are inspired by other movies but build on it and represent what’s going on today. This is very, you know, it’s very white, this movie. You don’t see a lot of different ethnicities. We don’t talk about gender. None of that. And I feel like that really doesn’t represent our world today.”
Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy at the ‘Don’t You Forget About Me: The Breakfast Club 40th Reunion’ in Chicago in April 2025Credit: Barry Brecheisen/WireImage
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Ringwald offered a possible compromise, saying that she would “like to see movies that are inspired by The Breakfast Club, but take it in a different direction.”
Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, and Emilio Estevez in ‘The Breakfast Club’Credit: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection
In 2015, Sheedy gushed about working on the set of The Breakfast Club. “It was the first time I felt like I really belonged,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “It was a very special family… I didn’t have a group like that when I was in high school at all. It was a really happy time in my life.”
Adding, “The movie has this message that in spite of people’s differences, there is something unifying in the experience of growing up and trying to find yourself.”
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