If you grew up in the 1980s, you probably loved St. Elmo's Fire and all the other Brat Pack movies. You probably wore the outrageous hairstyles and fashions, and when you return to the anthem of your youth, you remember it fondly. If you grew up post-80s, you probably rented St. Elmo's Fire and said to yourself, "There's no way people really dressed like that." It just doesn't have the same feeling if you're renting it than if you lived it.
With their feathered, back-combed, hair sprayed 'dos, pink and blue eyeshadow, hoop earrings, high-waisted jeans, muscle tanks, fishnet stockings, and clunky jewelry, a group of post-graduate kids adjust to the very difficult task of real life, given a new word by today's generation: "adulting". The more things change, the more they stay the same, and kids in the '80s found it just as difficult to grow up as millennials do now. What happens when a group of partiers try to hold down jobs, fall in and out of love with each other, still maintain their youthful fun, and try as hard as they can not to turn into their square parents? You get a classic Brat Pack movie. Rent this movie to see Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Mare Winningham, Ally Sheedy, Andrew McCarthy, and Judd Nelson prance around in their '80s finest. You'll also get to see Martin Balsam, Joyce Van Patten, and Andie MacDowell in the first movie she was allowed to speak in her own, charming Southern voice.
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