I agree with John Magee that The Breakfast Club is flawed -- but I still think it could raise issues in a classroom, including how unrealistic the resolution is (and maybe, why none of the kids, all successful as teens, have made it as grown-ups ... ) Other suggestions I have: Fame (a bit outdated, but I remember it causing a stir with kids in Paris in 1981 ...) Some Kind of Wonderful (I'm not pushing John Hughes .... and it may be damning that Roger Ebert waxes poetic about it ... ) Stand and Deliver (maybe it's more about teaching, but it handles expectations (low and high), obstacles to success, and success. It also deals with parents not understanding in a real-life sort of way) Swing Kids (it's Nazi Germany, but it's pride and peer pressure and music as expression -- and it stars the kid who killed himself in Dead Poets Society. I liked it.) Shari L. Rosenblum