St. Elmo's Fire

St. Elmo's Fire
by Joel Schumacher

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Actor: Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Rob Lowe
Director: Joel Schumacher
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Stephen H. Burum
Writer: Joel Schumacher
Editor: Richard Marks
Producer: Bernard Schwartz
Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner
Producer: Ned Tanen
Writer: Carl Kurlander
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Unknown; Portuguese (Dubbed), Unknown; Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: 80s college graduates in flaming love triangles
Summary: 4 Stars

St. Elmo's Fire is more like a steaming soap opera on autopilot--it all runs a little too quickly to explain itself. However, the actors really make this a great film about love life in the adult world.

The film features some of the best actors in the 80s, such as Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Mare Winningham, Demi Moore and Ally Sheedy. Each of their characters bring something different in the complex set of romances. They all play college graduates trying to succeed in the adult world.

Kirby Kaeger (Emilio Estevez) hopes to become a lawyer, but he's still peeking out of the corner of his eye at Dale Biberman (Andie McDowell), an older hospital intern.

Billy Hicks (Rob Lowe) is a frat boy who can't keep a job and has trouble making enough money to support his wife and baby, but can play the saxophone really well.

Wendy Beamish (Mare Winningham) is a shy virgin who devotes her life to helping people in Social Services. She wants to break away from her overprotective family, who is pushing her to marry someone she doesn't love. Meanwhile, Wendy still loves talking to Billy.

Julianna "Jules" Van Patten (Demi Moore) is the "party girl" who is in love with her boss at the bank. She lives extravagantly in a fancy apartment, but longs for the love she couldn't find from her emotionally distant father.

Alec Newbury is an ambitious Democrat political worker in a relationship with Leslie Hunter (Ally Sheedy), a woman who wants to become an architect before getting married. However, Alec is cheating on Leslie, and Kevin Dolenz (Andrew McCarthy), is Alec's friend who knows about Alec's many relationships.

With so many characters and only 110 minutes, the movie almost goes too quickly for the characters to fully develop. However, all the actors give such fine performances that it all somehow works out. Yes, even when the characters are almost ripping each other's lungs out, they all somehow stay friends.

I'm still not sure how many 80s kids were really bratty kids who smoked, had sex and took drugs. Still, this is a reasonably good film about teenage friendship. I still think this is one of those films that 80s kids would like more than I did, because I'm a 90s kid who prefers grunge and mosh pits. But if anyone has free time and is willing to check out a cool romantic comedy, they should give this film a try.

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Summary of St. Elmo's Fire

A group of friends fresh out of college find their self centered and obnoxious values stand in their way of coping with adulthood. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Emilio Estevez Andrew Mccarthy Run time: 110 minutes Rating: R

A collective vanity piece for the so-called Brat Pack of the 1980s, this coming-of-age movie--written and directed by Joel Schumacher (A Time to Kill)--is a largely unbelievable ensemble piece about college grads having trouble getting a lift-off into adulthood. As in John Hughes's Breakfast Club--which has a lot of casting overlap with this film--each actor plays a rather narrow type with problems common to his or her classification. Some (as with Rob Lowe's seemingly doomstruck character) are more absurd than others. But absurdity isn't the issue in this movie; a general sense of indulgence is. Schumacher not only presumes an undeserved mystique about this cast, but he also exploits it and comes up empty. --Tom Keogh

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