'The Breakfast Club' still cooking at 30

John Hughes' 1985 classic The Breakfast Club ends with Simple Minds' haunting lyrics: "Don't you forget about me."

And fans haven't as the movie marks its 30th anniversary.

Three decades later, the story of five vastly different high school students — a jock (Emilio Estevez), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a punk (Judd Nelson), a princess (Molly Ringwald) and a basket case (Ally Sheedy) — coming together in a memorable Saturday detention still resonates.

The movie has been restored for a commemorative Blu-ray edition, and special theater showings are planned for Tuesday.

Ringwald (Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink) says even Millennials know Breakfast Club lines. "They totally get it. It hits on universal themes that resonate for each generation," she says. "Now The Breakfast Club is a touchstone, in the way J.D. Salinger books were for me growing up."

The actors went on to form the core of the 1980s "Brat Pack," and Ringwald caused pre-Internet ripples with her offscreen relationship with Hall. But the actors haven't stayed in touch much, except to pay respects to writer/director Hughes when he died in 2009.

Ringwald, 47, and Sheedy, 52, had an emotional reunion at the South by Southwest Film Festival this month to watch the film.

"There's not that many people who can understand the experience," Ringwald says. "In fact, Ally is the only other woman who had a similar experience to me."

Sheedy says seeing it reminded her of something: "Molly doesn't remember this, but someone gave me a piece of that (library) banister. ... I think I know where it is. I'm going to have to dig that up."