Andrew McCarthy and the Brat Pack are back, but no, they’re not getting back into the coming of age movies that made them famous in the 1980s.
“Brats” is the new McCarthy-directed documentary that looks back at the actors that were labeled the “Brat Pack.” McCarthy reaches out to the actors and talks with Brat Pack actors like Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, and Emilio Estevez, as well as Brat Pack adjacent actors like Jon Cryer.
“Brats” premieres June 13 on Hulu, and in this episode co-hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz talk about the two 1985 films that featured three of the Brat Pack actors that led to the name, “The Breakfast Club” and “St. Elmo’s Fire.”
They also discuss the films of John Hughes, who directed most of the movies of the era that featured Brat Pack actors of the time. The Hughes films, notably “Sixteen Candles,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink,” and “Some Kind of Wonderful,” were iconic of the era and gave an opportunity for young actors to shine.
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For more on John Hughes, listen to our preview episode: John Hughes classics set stage for 1980s nostalgia in Disney’s ‘Prom Pact’
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Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin.
