The Breakfast Club (nonfiction)

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The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy as teenagers from different high school cliques who spend a Saturday in detention with their authoritarian assistant principal (Paul Gleason).

Confederate battle flag

Breakfast Club - Confederate battle flag during the "marijuana dance" scene.

Context: The 1980s

Emilio Estevez gets high and runs around the library in a cloud of reefer

Like the VP ain't gonna smell that shit!

Also: 1956 Georgia state flag, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag

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