‘The Breakfast Club’ 4K Joins The Criterion Collection

The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)

John Hughes’s 1985 teen classic The Breakfast Club arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition from The Criterion Collection, featuring a new 4K digital restoration with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack and an alternate 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix. The UHD is presented in Dolby Vision HDR.

The Breakfast Club (1985) - The Criterion Collection

Film Info

Country: United States
Year: 1985
Runtime: 97 minutes
Color | 1.85:1 | English
Spine: #905

Special Features

4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition features:

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Audio commentary featuring Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson
  • Interviews with Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy and other members of the cast and crew
  • Video essay featuring John Hughes’s production notes, read by Judd Nelson
  • Fifty minutes of deleted and extended scenes
  • Promotional and archival interviews
  • Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes
  • Radio interview with Hughes
  • Audio interview with Ringwald from This American Life
  • Trailer
  • English SDH subtitles
  • Plus: an essay by author and critic David Kamp
  • Cover based on an original theatrical poster by Annie Leibovitz

Release Date

The Criterion edition of The Breakfast Club releases on November 4, 2025 and can be pre-ordered here.


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