The Brat Pack documentary bombshells: Demi Moore ‘desperate to fit in’ — and Molly Ringwald’s refusal
nypost.comJon Cryer, Timothy Hutton and Robert Downey Jr. are sometimes also cited as members.) The core Brat Pack movies include “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty In Pink,” “Sixteen Candles” and “St.
Elmo’s Fire.” Directed by and starring McCarthy, 61, the documentary follows McCarthy as he seeks out his former peers – some of whom he hasn’t seen in several decades — and has frank conversations with them.
Here are the biggest revelations from the doc. Demi Moore, 61, was in “St Elmo’s Fire” at the beginning of her career in 1985.
Moore has previously been open about her drug and alcohol addiction struggles, and her time in rehab. When McCarthy visited Moore on-screen, he recalled their first meeting, when the film’s director, Joel Schumacher, “presented you like a creature you created.”Reminiscing about the late Schumacher, who died of cancer at age 80 in 2020, Moore said, “He really stuck his neck out for me, it’s not like I had any box office draw.” She admitted, “They paid to have a companion, a sober companion with me 24/7 during the whole shooting.
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