My problem with the Breakfast Club is that these people all become friends in the end. That is a load of crap. I knew people in school, of those five stereotypes, and a lot more that they missed, none of them mixed, except for a few who "crossed over" a few intelligent jocks, etc.... These groups even dated within the group. >How about > The Outsiders (Coppola) > Rumble Fish (Coppola) > The Breakfast Club (it's Hollywood, but draws stereotypes > reasonably effectively) > Lucas (it must be 9 years old, I think it stars Corey Haims > and I don't remember how real it is. After all, > I think Charlie Sheen is in it, too.) > School Ties (about a private school and antisemitism and football -- > so it may seem inappropriate to B.C. (I teach there, > too) but I think it brings up real questions about > school pressures to perform, to belong, to participate > and to adapt, and I think it would work.) > Dead Poets Society (obviously more Hollywood, but it glorifies poetry > and Walt Whitman and creative interactive teaching - > so I'd look at it for other values.) > > Shari L. Rosenblum