'You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried' Celebrates 25th Anniversary of 'The Breakfast Club'

In the classic 1985 film The Breakfast Club, Bender, the unforgettable rebel played by Judd Nelson, tells Molly Ringwald’s icy prom queen, "Sweets, you couldn’t ignore me if you tried."
February 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of The Breakfast Club and the film remains timeless—along with other seminal '80s youth movies such as Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, St. Elmo’s Fire and Say Anything.
In You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation, film journalist Susannah Gora presents the definitive book on these movies, exploring their cultural significance and offering for the first time a complete behind-the-scenes look at the compelling history of how the films were made, through revealing interviews with the directors and stars who made them famous.
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation is available in bookstores now. For more information, visit www.bratpackbook.com, www.susannahgora.com or www.crownpublishing.com.
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