Where was Breakfast Club library scene filmed?

The Breakfast Club | 1985
Most of the film takes place in the library of 'Shermer High School', which was a set created in the gymnasium of what was then Maine North High School, 9511 Harrison Street in Des Plaines, about 20 miles northwest of Chicago itself. It closed in 1981 and was empty at the time of filming.
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Where was breakfast club scene filmed?

Glenbrook North High School is not only home to the football field, but also the array of locker shots used at the beginning of the movie.
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Is The Breakfast Club library real?

Inspired by Glenbrook High School in Glenview, Illinois, where John Hughes spent much of his teenage years, Shermer High was the fictional setting of the two story library where the entirety of The Breakfast Club took place.
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Where was the last scene of Breakfast Club filmed?

Similarly, the final scene of the movie, which sees John Bender (Judd Nelson) running across the athletic field, was also filmed at Maine North High School. The Breakfast Club was not the only John Hughes film shot at Main North.
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Did John Hughes use the same high school?

John Hughes himself went to high school at Glenbrook North, which was subsequently used in two of his most famous films. The football field was used in the iconic ending shot of The Breakfast Club, and the entrance to the Performing Arts building was used as the entrance to Ferris Bueller's high school.
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Did Ferris Bueller go to the same school as The Breakfast Club?

Filming took place at Maine North High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, which had been closed in May 1981. The same setting was used for interior scenes of Hughes's 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which featured exterior shots from nearby Glenbrook North High School.
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What high school did they film The Breakfast Club?

"It's a first draft of the screenplay by John Hughes." There is good reason for the school district to have the early film script: much of "The Breakfast Club" was filmed inside the shuttered Maine North High School in unincorporated Maine Township during the spring of 1984.
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Can you visit Maine North High School?

Want to Visit? Open for just 11 years, Maine North High School shuttered permanently in 1981 due to low attendance.
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Where was Breakfast at Tiffany's filmed?

Filming began on Fifth Avenue outside the Tiffany & Co. flagship store on October 2, 1960. Most of the exteriors were filmed in New York City, and all of the interiors, except for portions of the scene inside Tiffany & Company, were filmed on the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood.
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Does Shermer High School exist?

Rydell, Shermer, Ridgemont and Hill Valley are all famous schools from some of the most-loved movies of all-time. However, none actually exist. All of the high schools in films like "Grease," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Back to the Future" are fictional, but they had to be filmed somewhere.
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Is there a Confederate flag in The Breakfast Club?

Just noticed in the famous Emilio Estevez dancing scene from The Breakfast Club that there's some sort of confederate flag in the library.
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What is the David Bowie quote in The Breakfast Club?

are immune to your consultations. These lyrics from the Bowie song "Changes" appear on a black screen at the very beginning of the movie. It helps state part of the message of the movie—the idea that adults don't remember what it's like to be young, and that teenagers are capable of working out their own lives.
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Did The Breakfast Club stay friends?

Do the characters stay friends? As the five students bond throughout detention, they wonder what will happen next. They come to the conclusion that their newfound friendships will most likely only last until detention ends. While there were constant rumors about a sequel to The Breakfast Club, it never happened.
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What movie was filmed at New Trier High?

New Trier High School

After New Trier West closed as a 4-year high school in 1981 due to a decline in enrollment, the empty campus was eventually rented-out by Producer John Hughes and transformed into a movie set for the movie Home Alone (1990)!
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What library is in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

“In Truman Capote's offbeat New York romance Breakfast at Tiffany's, one scene is set in the main reading room of the New York Public Library,” explains Kathie Coblentz, of the NYPL's Special Collections, about her pick.
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What does $50 for the powder room mean in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

Holly is given $50 "for the powder room" by a male acquaintance, as payment for her companionship that evening. 4. She's got a great moniker. In an early version of the 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, the character was named Connie Gustafson.
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Where is the apartment from Breakfast at Tiffany's?

You can find Holly Golightly's home on East 71st Street in Manhattan. The location, however, was used only for the outside shots. The interior of her apartment was filmed in a studio in California, so there's no need to attempt to get inside.
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What high school was used in Sixteen Candles?

For years it seemed like common knowledge that the scene was filmed at Glenbrook North High School, located at 2300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, IL.
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What high school was used in Weird Science?

8 Shermer, Illinois

Shermer High School is featured in both Sixteen Candles and Weird Science, linked by the exact same tracking shot used in both movies for the exterior of the school. Furthermore, the town of Northbrook, Illinois, used to be called Shermerville until 1923.
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What ocean borders Maine?

Maine is bounded to the northwest and northeast by the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, respectively, and to the west by New Hampshire. The famed rocky coastline of the state is angled from southwest to northeast along the Atlantic Ocean.
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Why was Claire in detention in The Breakfast Club?

The popular girl at school, Claire Standish, was played by Molly Ringwald. Claire ended up in detention because she skipped class so she could go shopping.
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Why did they call themselves The Breakfast Club?

THE BREAKFAST CLUB was originally titled DETENTION, but John Hughes changed the name after he heard a friend's teenage son refer to his school's morning detention class as “The Breakfast Club.”
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Was Ferris Bueller a figment of Cameron's imagination?

Anyone who has fallen into these holes about pop culture death hoaxes and other fun stuff can relate, but this one is actually pretty interesting: Ferris Bueller's Day Off is all in Cameron's head. That, like Tyler Durden in Fight Club, Ferris is just a figment of his imagination.
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Where did John Hughes shoot his movies?

Part of what makes his movies so awesome is how authentic they are-- which probably has something to do with the fact that he wrote his movies to take place in the suburbs where he grew up, just outside Chicago; he even filmed a majority of them in and around the Windy City, too.
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