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Feb 13, 2015 4:05 PM UTC They’re not teenagers anymore: the adolescent archetypes who populated _The Breakfast Club_ turn 30 this weekend — the film was released on Feb. 15 in 1985 — and are celebrating with a [planned theatrical rerelease](http://time.com/3708593/breakfast-club-is-30th-anniversary-john-hughes/). But, when the movie was originally released, their teen-dom wasn’t necessarily their most salient feature anyway. In a piece for that week’s issue of TIME, critic Richard Corliss took a look at the fact that there were “too damn many” movies for that age group, and that the flood showed no sign of stopping. (It was more than a year later that _Breakfast Club_ star Molly Ringwald would be featured on the cover seen here, proof that the reign of the teen queen was yet to peak.) However, he also found that some “teenpix” transcended their demographic bounds, and that _Breakfast Club_ was one of them: --- > “” --- **_Read the full story here, in the TIME Vault:_** [Is There Life After Teenpix?](http://time.com/vault/issue/1985-02-18/page/96) **_See the Molly Ringwald cover story here, in the TIME Vault:_** [Ain’t She Sweet?](http://time.com/vault/issue/1986-05-26/page/1) ### See Iconic Franchises Before and After Their Reboots  The Terminator first came to theaters in 1984 with Linda Hamilton starring as the iconic Sarah Connor. Four films later, Arnold Schwarzenegger is still the titular terminator, but franchise newcomer Emilia Clarke of Game of Thrones fame joins as a reboot of Connor. Orion Pictures; Paramount  The original Mad Max, directed by George Miller, came out in 1979 with Mel Gibson starring as the titular character. Now, the 2015 reboot brings us back to the post-apocalyptic landscape with Tom Hardy as Max. 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