Molly Ringwald, the actress who starred in Eighties teen movie The Breakfast Club, has admitted she now finds the film "troubling".

Regarded as one of the first so-called Brat Pack films, the movie about a group of high school misfits during Saturday detention had a major impact on both the teen film genre and on popular culture.

But Ringwald, now 50, has described how she has re-evaluated the film in light of the #MeToo movement, which saw scores of women and men share their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Writing in The New Yorker, the actress said she watched the John Hughes 1984 classic again recently after her 10-year-old daughter asked to see it.

"I worried she would find aspects of it troubling," she wrote. "But I hadn't anticipated that it would ultimately be most troubling to me."