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Molly Ringwald says The Breakfast Club is troubling in #MeToo era

Actor who starred in popular 1980s film advocates critical stance towards art of past
The Breakfast Club was one of the 80s films that propelled Molly Ringwald to stardom. Photograph: Allstar/UNIVERSAL/Sportsphoto Ltd

Molly Ringwald, who starred in The Breakfast Club, has admitted she now finds the cult 1980s film “troubling”.

Writing in the New Yorker, the actor who was 16 when she starred in the high school drama in 1985, describes rewatching the film with her daughter and reflecting on some of the scenes in the age of #MeToo.

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