Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s
The Breakfast Club
Scored from 697 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Five high school students from different cliques - a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal - serve a Saturday detention together at Shermer High School. Forced to write an essay about who they think they are, they spend the day confronting their stereotypes, family pressures, and insecurities, slowly discovering they have more in common than they expected.
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 comedy and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 697 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 739 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Breakfast Club lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 697.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
