Andrew McCarthy’s documentary is a star’s troubled reminiscence.
You know that one guy at the high school reunion who just won’t go home? Who’s still sitting there at the table under the tent at 1 a.m.
What’s really chafing the filmmaker’s biscuits is the June 10, 1985, issue of New York magazine that introduced “the Brat Pack” — the actors, the phrase, the cultural meme — to a world that wholeheartedly adopted it and, in McCarthy’s view , diminished the individual talents and career options of every actor involved.
The director also buttonholes “Pretty in Pink” director Howard Deutch, “St. Elmo’s Fire” producer Lauren Shuler Donner, novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a film critic, a screenwriter, a casting agent, the author of a book on the Brat Pack and others, and he layers in a wealth of 1980s interview footage of the actors gamely trying to talk their way out of the corner into which the era painted them.
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