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Best of the 'Brat Pack' Movies
"St. Elmo's Fire" is my favorite 'Brat Pack' movie. With an all-star cast, how can you go wrong? First you have Rob Lowe who is simply gorgeous as Billy, a guy who can't decide what he's going to do after graduating college. He plays the sax (quite well I might add) for fun and sometimes for money.

Then you have Julie (Demi Moore in a wonderful performance), who is very high-strung after learning about her father's marriage to another woman. Her life is basically like kettle with hot water that is about to boil. She's happy then she's sad, then she's manic...She's everything! But she does a wonderful job.

I loved seeing Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy together. After seeing "The Breakfast Club," I never thought I'd see them as a couple. They are cute together and the scenes they share are fun to watch.

Emilio Estevez's performance was just as wonderful as the others. He falls in love with a doctor (Andie McDowell) who is already involved with someone else, but he's determined to make things go his way. It doesn't work, but watching him try to make it work is just as much fun.

Andrew McCarthy is a lot of fun to watch. Everyone thinks he's gay because he doesn't have a girlfriend and doesn't date very much. It's a typical stereotype, but I got over that. The end of the movie proves that he is not gay. Mare Winningham gives a stunning performance as a girl who comes from a very wealthy family. She loves Billy but her father wants her to marry a successful businessman. Since she is 'daddy's girl,' she doesn't want to disappoint him.

Overall, this movie is just fun to watch and listening to the director's commentary is great. You get to learn about all these things that went on behind the scenes and what roles the actors were originally up for.

St Elmo's pile
A group of college friends from the 80's try to figure out what to do after graduation. One guy is a manwhore, a chick is a (), a guys is a stalker writer, there's a stalker waiter, a liberal social worker, and a drunk who refuses to take care of his wife and kid. In the end billy leaves on a train to play the sax and everyone thinks it's cool.

Excellent cast and well done music score...
But that is really all that can be said for this movie. One look at the name Joel Schumacher on the box should tell you that there is a 60/40 chance that this movie is going to suck and suck it does. Don't get me wrong, it was a fun little movie with good performances and should not be missed by any brat-pack 80's fan, however that does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that this is a "good" movie. The characters are all pretty basic soap opera-type cut outs and the dramatic situations they find themselves in range from ludicrously bad to mildly interesting. All-in-all the film is worth the price of admission, however dont kid yourself into believing that this is anything more than what it really is: A guilty pleasure.

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