St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

Directed by

Joel Schumacher

Genre

drama film, romance film, melodrama, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 599 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of friends who just graduated from Georgetown University try to figure out their lives after college. They deal with relationships, jobs, and the shift into adulthood.

nostalgicdramaticemotionalyouthfulmelodramaticdating poorlyearnestbittersweet

What happens

St. Elmo's Fire is a 1985 American coming-of-age drama film co-written and directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Andie MacDowell and Mare Winningham. It centers on a clique of recent graduates of Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University, and their adjustment to post-university life and the responsibilities of adulthood. The film is a prominent movie of the Brat Pack genre. It was released by Columbia Pictures on June 28, 1985, receiving negative reviews from critics but was a box-office hit, grossing $37.8 million on a $10 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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