Cast dating teenage daughter

His critical reputation has only grown since he died, in 2009, at the age of fifty-nine.

We recorded a conversation about it for the radio show “This American Life.” I’ll be the first to admit that ten is far too young for a viewing of “The Breakfast Club,” a movie about five high-school students who befriend one other during a Saturday detention session, with plenty of cursing, sex talk, and a now-famous scene of the students smoking pot.

But my daughter insisted that her friends had already seen it, and she said she didn’t want to watch it for the first time in front of other people.

A writer-director friend assured me that kids tend to filter out what they don’t understand, and I figured that it would be better if I were there to answer the uncomfortable questions.

Earlier this year, the Criterion Collection, which is “dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world,” released a restored version of “The Breakfast Club,” a film written and directed by John Hughes that I acted in, more than three decades ago.

For this edition, I participated in an interview about the movie, as did other people close to the production.