May 03 2008
The Brat Pack
One can’t really address the 80s without paying respect to the “Brat Pack”–a group of up-and-coming 80s actors that consisted of Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy.
In groups, clusters or pairs, the Brat Pack appeared in many films such as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night.
And like most good 80s films, they had the John Hughes connection–a lot of the films the Brat Pack were in were either written, directed, produced, or all of the above, by Hughes.
The nickname the Brat Pack was coined in a 1985 cover story in New York magazine by David Blum (June 10, 1985, pp. 40-47) and is a play on the Rat Pack.
Most of the Brat Pack have enjoyed successful careers (or career revivals, as the case may be), and starred on screens large and small, as well as on Broadway.
The Brat Pack may be a thing of the past, but thanks to DVDs, they will live on.
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