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St. Elmo's Fire

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St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:13

Rotten:16

Average Rating:4.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favorite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) and Leslie (Ally Sheedy)... Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favorite 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 McDowell). 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. [More]

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Whip Hubley

Director: Joel Schumacher

Director: Joel Schumacher
Composer: David Foster

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Reviews for St. Elmo's Fire

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02/09/06
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05/13/04
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03/13/06
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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Everything collapses under its own weight.

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Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

Even teens might have a hard time identifying with the level of melodrama we get here.

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06/17/05
Emanuel Levy
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The intolerable apotheosis of 80s youth-driven filmmaking.

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07/08/04
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
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10/10/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

there's a perceptive, brilliant essay buried somewhere in St. Elmo's Fire on the dangers of deeply, tragically stupid people trying to write the great American novel.

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10/13/09
Walter Chaw
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Everyone struggles. Everyone triumphs. The music swells. No one cares.

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03/12/04
Spence D.
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IGN Movies

the loud clothes, the pumped-up fake rock of John Parr, the questionable sex appeal of McCarthy and the unctuous Nelson. Turn it on and watch your skin crawl.

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10/13/05
James Sanford
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