Andrew McCarthy has ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ Reunion With Demi Moore to Prep for Brat Pack Documentary
thewrap.comA post shared by Andrew McCarthy (@andrewtmccarthy)The documentary is based on McCarthy’s 2021 memoir “Brat, an 80s Story,” which focuses on his career in the 1980s and the peak of his fame as an actor.
That period coincided with several other young actors who often appeared in one another’s movies, the most often cited being Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy.
But the term “Brat Pack” (a pun on Frank Sinatra’s old group of friends, the Rat Pack) got applied to a lot of young and in-demand actors during the period, including Moore, Jamie Gertz, James Spader, Rob Lowe, and Robert Downey Jr, among many others.McCarthy for his part said in 1999 that he was never really social with the purported members of the group and has generally dismissed the term as basically a media creation.The two films most often noted as defining for this group are “The Breakfast Club” and “St.
Elmo’s” fire, which feature a majority of people said to be in the group. “St Elmo’s Fire” also stars Lowe, Nelson, Sheedy, Estevez and Mare Winnigham and concerns a group of recent college graduates figuring out their lives.
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