This Other '80s Movie Is Basically a More Depressing ‘The Breakfast Club’
Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez star in St. Elmo's Fire, which was also released in 1985 but has none of The Breakfast Club's charm.
No one dominated the 1980s quite like “The Brat Pack.” A generation of young stars that emerged from the John Hughes era of high school comedies, the various young actors and actresses associated with the Brat Pack starred in many of the most significant hit films of the era, including all-time classics like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Outsiders, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Of all the films to emerge from this group, The Breakfast Club stands chief among them. It’s the rare teen comedy that’s funny, romantic, touching, and surprisingly modern in its themes. However, the same year of The Breakfast Club’s release saw the debut of a much darker film from the same group about reconnecting with friends: Joel Schumacher’s St. Elmo’s Fire. Compared to the optimism of The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire is a darker, more hostile examination of friendship that certainly hasn’t aged as well.
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