February 5 is National Pancake Day, a celebration of flapjacks and philanthropy at your local IHOP, where they’ll serve you a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes in hopes of securing your donation to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Thinking about pancakes—besides giving us a warm, syrupy smile—brought up memories of some of our favorite breakfast scenes in movies.
You may think of breakfast as a leisurely meal you eat in your pajamas, or as something you gulp down absent-mindedly on your way out the door, but on film, breakfast takes on a much more dramatic flavor. Here, then, are 10 movie breakfasts worth toasting.