Remember the brat pack? Emilio
Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Judd
Nelson, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald and Alley Sheedy. I watched
Weird Science last night and it got me thinking about all those
great movies. I loved them! They ruled my world in the
80s!
I guess my first brat pack movie was Sixteen Candles in 1984. It was a GREAT movie! I totally related to Molly Ringwald’s character Sam. I felt her pain. I really did. And I was so happy for her when she got the cute rich guy in the end! And so jealous!
I think John Hughes had a teenage girl giving him his show ideas. He had to have, everything was so real! I just thought there was no way a man could make so many movies that I could relate to… ‘I’ as a teenage girl of course. The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty In Pink just to name a few… all gems to me.
What’s your favorite brat pack movie? Mine is The
Breakfast Club. It probably has to do with my visits to
detention in high school. I wish they could have been like that
instead of just studying while a teacher stared at me all
day…. And who was your favorite brat pack actor or actress.
Mine was definitely Molly Ringwald. I think I really did connect
with her way back in 1984. I was that same shy but opinionated girl
she portrayed so well.