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Saint Elmo's Fire
1985
Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favourite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) and Leslie (Ally Sheedy) are career-minded and heading towards marriage. Virginal Wendy (Mare Winningham) only has eyes for wild, would-be rocker Billy (Rob .. Read more
| Starring | Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore |
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| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| Genres | Drama |
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Saint Elmo's Fire
Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favourite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) and Leslie (Ally Sheedy) are career-minded and heading towards marriage. Virginal Wendy (Mare Winningham) only has eyes for wild, would-be rocker Billy (Rob Lowe)--whose wife and child don't prevent him from trying to relive his college days. Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) ponders the meaning of life and secretly desires Leslie, while his roommate Kirbo (Estevez) pursues an elusive older woman (Andie MacDowell). Jules (Demi Moore) rounds out the group with her massive debts and cocaine problem. Joel Schumacher's twentysomething ensemble piece stands, for better or worse, as a revealing peek into the popular cinema--and values--of the 1980s. The film also represented a graduation of sorts, as Estevez, Sheedy, and Nelson portrayed high school students in John Hughes's THE BREAKFAST CLUB earlier in 1985.
| Starring | Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham |
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| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 43 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 43 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 27 May 2004 Blu-ray: 03 Aug 2009 Production year: 1985 |
| Format | DVD |
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A Brat Pack movie that most of the cast would probably like to forget, this is now a great example of the excesses of the 1980s and a reminder to young actors that it can all go horribly wrong or — in the case of Demi Moore and Mare Winningham for a short time — wonderfully right. Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy and Judd Nelson — all of whose careers have never been the same again — are the college pals trying to make their way in the world while wrestling with problems like drug abuse, a teenage marriage, unrequited love and hidden sexuality. Directed by Batman and Robin's Joel Schumacher, this is glossy and glib like so much else from the decade it represents, but it's also a fascinating record of what that generation was watching, wearing and listening to.
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"...Seven attention-getting young stars....ST. ELMO'S FIRE is as good a film as any to put into a time capsule this year..."
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
80's class....
Do you remember a time before chavs?. A time when people on social security still wanted to find a job?. If you do then you remember the 1980's..... This film is a classic from a decade when films like Saint Elmo's Fire reflected the times like no other. If you are too young to have been around in the 80's watch this film. You will have a good laugh at the hair styles, and maybe the clothes. But the soundtrack is one to remember. Enjoy.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
This film doesn't need an introduction. A cetified BratPack classic that even now, stands the test of time.
Acting is pretty solid throughout the film, and the array of characters are each given equal footing amongst their fellow cast members. The only odd ball of the flick is Emilio Estevez and his persute of Andie MacDowells doctor character. He kind of sits outside the main group and seems like a plot that may or may not have originally made it. Not a bad thing, in any regard.
The DVD is fairly basic however, with only two film trailers (and these are not of St Elmo's Fire), it seems this DVD was one of the older discs out there. Quality is TV standard, but certainly not high bitrate for people with plasma screens may be dissapointed with what appears to be a straight studio transfer.
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