CHICAGO – This time, even Emilio was there. The cast of the seminal teen movie The Breakfast Club had a reunion for the ages, enjoying a posh lunch and trading barbs at one another all over again.

Emilio Estevez joined former cast members Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy for a reunion meal at RPM Steak, an up-market steakhouse in River North. The actors were also in town for a panel chat at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo.

They had nothing praise for one another in their respective movie careers but then reverted to character when asked about the the 1985 movie that brought them all together. “We’re all still pretty bizarre,” Estevez said, echoing one of the film’s most famous lines, uttered by his character, Andrew Clark. “And we’ve learned how to hide it really, really well.”

The Breakfast Club, directed by the late John Hughes, followed a group of five students at an Illinois high school who report for an all-day detention. During that day, they bond with one another and call themselves the Breakfast Club. The film cost just $1 million and has grossed $51.5 million. It is often on lists of the best films of the 1980s and best teen films of all time. All of the stars went on to bigger and better things.

Asked why they weren’t having breakfast together, Hall quipped, “We’ve already done that. Haven’t you seen the movie? We’re moving on. This time, it’s the lunch club.” To prove his point, Hall stopped talking long enough to take a huge bite of his club sandwich.

The Chicago reunion was significant because it marked the first time that Estevez had joined in; because of family concerns, he had been absent from the 30-year reunion, in 2015, when a digitally remastered film accompanied that temporal landmark.  He promised to make it to the 50-year reunion, already being planned for 2035. “I’ll get us a prime dinner spot, to be sure,” Estevez said. “I’m already working on it.”

Whether the Brat Pack five get together for Dessert Club in 2045 remains to be seen.