The movie is a metaphor about the social classicism and the loss of innocence. Despite to be set in 1984 (and turned with years in undisputed icon of the 80s) the main plot is a timeless tale with the five main characters incarnating the five most basic stereotypes of teenager: Claire belongs to an upper class family but which parents are in a broken marriage at the edge of the divorce, that use her as throwing weapon against the other, replacing love and affection by money and condescension. As result, she's the full-of-herself most popular girl of the high school, but suffering the pressure of friends and classmates to be perfect, unable to be herself in order to please others; Andrew belongs to a middle class family where the success is most important than love, with his abusive and rude father obsessed to be a winner and that Andrew not to be a loser. As result, Andrew is an athlete in the team of wrestling equally obsessed to win, hating the way his parents treat him and fearing to be as them; Brian belongs to a middle class family where the main objective is an A grade to graduate and have an important place in the world as businessman or CEO, follow the rules and be obedient, overprotected by his demanding parents. As result, he's a naive, shy and unsure teen in the group of nerds and geeks usually object of jokes and mocks by the popular as Claire and Andrew, who unable to accept a F grade in a class work tries to commit suicide by his school failure; John belongs to a worker-class family dominated by his violent and bully father and his shallow and inept mother, being hit and mistreated by them. As result, he's in the group of the outcast bullies and drug-smugglers, lovers of hard rock and heavy metal, pretending to be a macho including if he really falls in love with a girl for not showing his true feelings and being despised by the rest of the high school to be a thug used to the bad jokes; and as John, Allison belongs to a worker family with a parents that disregard and ignore their daughter as if she didn't exist (to be an unwanted child, perhaps), leaving her alone all the time. As result, she's an eccentric freak, outsider, free-spirited and extremely sensitive girl looking for a friendship and an affection that she never had, turning in compulsive lying and kleptomaniac as replacement of her loneliness. Because their personal circumstances, the five live separate lives in their respective groups as if it were micro-worlds isolated between them, not having relation with the rest by the social prejudices of each one about the others. The meeting in the library after to be punished by different reasons let to break the cloistered, giving them not only the chance to see the person instead the stereotype associated to each group but a perspective to compare the life they have lived and find a new way of life they would can live in the future, creating their own path for avoiding to be as their parents when they grow up.

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