Most of the exterior scenes and some of the interior scenes were filmed at Niles East High School, close to downtown Skokie, the setting for Hall's driving the Rolls-Royce. A cafeteria scene and a gym scene were filmed at Niles North High School.
A fictional Chicago suburb called Shermer was created to film the movie, and a real Chicago suburban school called Des Plaines was used as the filming location. The building used in the filming is still standing but has been repurposed as the district headquarters for the Illinois State Police and other offices.
Filming took place at Maine North High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, which had been closed in May 1981. The same setting was used for interior scenes of Hughes's 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which featured exterior shots from nearby Glenbrook North High School.
Are Ferris Bueller and Breakfast Club the same school?
Trivia. Shermer High School is also featured or referenced in several other John Hughes movies: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles and Weird Science.
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What town was Ferris Bueller filmed in?
Scenes were filmed at several locations in downtown Chicago and Winnetka (Ferris's home, his mother's real estate office, etc.). Many of the other scenes were filmed in Northbrook, Illinois, including at Glenbrook North High School.
It was only open for about seven years and then shuttered because of low enrollment. Maine Township has three other High Schools, Maine East and Maine South and Maine West. Maine North is in Unincorporated Des Plaines Illinois.
Sixteen Candles starred Molly Ringwald at age 15 and Paul Dooley played her on-screen father. 1984 teen classic movie Sixteen Candles had a very inappropriate dialogue during a father-daughter moment. Paul Dooley, who played on-screen dad to Molly Ringwald, then 15, improvised to change it.
Mr. Johnson is the father of Brian and his younger sister, the uncle of Kendall, and the husband of Brian's mother. He appeared in one of the last scenes, where he picks up Brian after his detention.
A Lot Of The Breakfast Club Dialogue Was Improvised
According to the actors, the most crucial moment of improvisation came when they were asked to tell their own detention stories in one of the film's most iconic scenes (via Fader).
When Jake puts Caroline in the car and Geek-Ted gets his geek friends to take pictures of him with Caroline her hair is definitely still cut in the back (actually it's a wig) - it's cut.
Sixteen Candles wasn't the first film that 21-year-old Joan Cusack appeared in alongside her brother John (that would be 1983's Class), and it was far from the last. As an unnamed geek, Cusack enjoyed a memorable sight gag involving a drinking fountain.
How old was Molly Ringwald when The Breakfast Club was made?
Molly was just 16 years old when she played the so-called “princess” Claire in the film, the most popular girl in school known for how beautiful and rich she is. Throughout the movie, Claire is relentlessly teased by John Bender, played by Judd Nelson.
The entire movie was filmed on location around the city of Chicago and its suburbs. The exterior shots of Glenbrook North High School were filmed at 2300 Shermer Road in Northbrook, Illinois, located on Metra rail North Line from Chicago's Union Station.
Most of the film takes place in the library of 'Shermer High School', which was a set created in the gymnasium of what was then Maine North High School, 9511 Harrison Street in Des Plaines, about 20 miles northwest of Chicago itself. It closed in 1981 and was empty at the time of filming.
He originally titled his script Detention, a wholly unexciting name for a movie, before he overheard a friend's teenage son refer to Saturday morning detention as “the breakfast club.” After learning this phrase, Hughes changed the title of his movie and its final line to reflect it (via the American Film Institute).
She walks out of the school and gives John one of her diamond earrings showing him that she can meet him halfway. After they share a kiss, Bender asks why Claire did it (which makes sense, owing how Bender abused Claire to kingdom come), and Claire responds that she knew he would not.
High schools students get high on marijuana. There is a lengthy scene where adolescents smoke marijuana and there are some sporadic references to the drug throughout. An adolescent character smokes a cigarette in another scene.
After Bender escapes from Vernon locking him in a closet, he hides under the desk, and everyone makes noises to protect his hiding spot, Allison also begins to make noises to protect Bender from getting caught. She is also the only one who doesn't smoke Bender's weed.
The drunk girl in question is Caroline (Haviland Morris), the girlfriend to romantic hero Jake Ryan, and if you know one thing about Sixteen Candles, it's that Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling) is perfect.
Michael Earl Schoeffling is an American former actor and model, known for playing the role of Jake Ryan in Sixteen Candles, Al Carver in Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Kuch in Vision Quest, and Joe in Mermaids. Schoeffling was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and raised in South Jersey.
In an old interview given to a media portal, Michael Earl Schoeffling said that in Hollywood many actors spend most of their time out of work, hence he decided to spend more time making furniture instead. The 16 Candles actor claimed that furniture making turned out to be better than acting for him.
The Maine North High School building is now used as a district headquarters for the Illinois State Police, a communications center for the Cook County Sheriff's Department, an Illinois State Lottery payment office, the largest regional office of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the Northern Illinois office ...
This dream library was just a movie set—albeit one reconstructed in an actual high school gym just north of Chicago. And bonus fact: according to Movie-locations.com, some of the corridor scenes where shot in Hughes's own high school – Glenbrook North High School, in Northbrook, IL.
Though the movie recalls Hughes' time at Glenbrook North, the detention plot comes via New Trier Township High School, where weekday morning detention had been nicknamed “The Breakfast Club” for decades.
