Madonna and the Breakfast Club

  • Documentary
  • Drama
2/28/2019
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The documentary story of Madonna's struggling days in New York with her first band "Breakfast Club," leading up to her first solo record deal.

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    • tmdb28039023

      Madonna and the Breakfast Club is ostensibly a documentary about Madonna's days as a starving artist in New York with her first band, the titular. However, it plays out more like a kind of patriarchal retrospective revenge/twisted psychosexual fantasy it certainly gives new meaning to the Madonna-Prostitute complex.

      The interviewees, all of the male persuasion, paint a portrait in which the singer alternates between an "adorable" little animal (specifically a squirrel or a "baby bird") "writing her little songs," and a sneaky sexual predator who needs to be constantly surrounded by men (other than the narrator, there is only, and briefly at that, one other woman in the film; apparently Madonna didnt have any female friends) vying for h...

      September 13, 2022

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