John Hughes' teen coming-of-age dramedy, "The Breakfast Club," came out in 1985 ... Vice Principal Vernon and John Kapelos as Carl the janitor, who was twenty-eight when the movie was made.

As Molly Ringwald’s future brother-in-law in 1984’s “Sixteen Candles” and a year later as the all-knowing janitor in “The Breakfast Club.” In the years since, Kapelos has been a ...

Rick Moranis was fired from the film An important but understated role in “The Breakfast Club” was Carl the janitor, played by actor John Kapelos. However, the character would have been much ...

"The Breakfast Club" opens with a David Bowie quote from ... which is a real 1960s self-help book. Carl the janitor was Shermer High's "Man of the Year" in 1969. In another opening shot, the ...

John Kapelos plays Carl, the straight-shooting janitor, in John Hughes’s 1985 film The Breakfast Club. John Kapelos has Rick Moranis to thank for paving the way to “a high point of my film ...

When it comes to “The Breakfast Club,” the movie itself tells us the ... The same Carl Reed, played by John Kapelos, is now a janitor at Shermer High School. Anthony Michael Hall’s ...

As The Breakfast Club, John Hughes’ groundbreaking comedic ... bring up that John Kapelos’ interpretation of the Carl the Janitor character served a crucial narrative part in the dramatic ...

We're looking back at some surprising facts about the film. 1. One of The Breakfast Club's key scenes was improvised. The film’s gut-wrenching heart-to-heart, where all five kids spill deep ...