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Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jamie Auld

    Madonna

  2. Cast 1

    Denisa Juhos

    Madonna's Mother

  3. Cast 1

    Oscar Pavlo

    Madonna's Father

  4. Cast 1

    Jordan Loewenstein

    Norris Burroughs

  5. Rogelio Douglas III

    Stephen Bray

  6. Cast 1

    Madonna

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Cast 1

    Samantha Nicole Dunn

    Teen Madonna

  8. Michael Varde

    Mike Monahan

  9. John Paul Harkins

    Adam Alter

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 (...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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