Oh wow! When I was a kid, I loved his movies. I still love them and omgoodness…..he is still gorgeous!!! ❤️🥰😍

The doc is about more than just “The Brat Pack.”Andrew McCarthy is examining youth, and looking back at a seminal time in his life, and reckoning with his past, and appreciating that experience.I’m 53, and I have such fond memories of John Hughes movies.I didn’t see “St Elmo’s” until I was an adult, but Andrew McCarthy was always my favorite.He’s the intelligent, sensitive loner, and I just always loved him.❤

Still so handsome!!!

Watched 'BRATS' and it's funny to hear that they all though that the term 'Brat Pack' was negative. Being from the same generation and watching most of their movies, I never thought anything about the term 'Brat Pack' other than it described a group of popular actors. I saw it as a term placed on the 'it' actors at that time. No one I knew talked about them negatively because of it. They should have been happy they were being recognized and talked about. I thought that is what actors wanted. It's funny how the name was perceived differently by them and by fans.

@cmsmith1973

2 ай бұрын

I completely agree with you. I was a teen at the time they were so popular and I never had a negative thought about them or the term brat pack. I wouldve been proud if i were them to be part of such an iconic time in movies. John Hughes made the nest movies

@KrisBryant99

Ай бұрын

Some of them wanted to be taken seriously which is why the term affected some of them.

❤❤❤❤❤❤so handsome

Andrew. We all just wanted to be part of something. To belong. It was you, Andrew, along with Judd, Molly, Ally, the Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, the music, the torture, the agony of not belonging, the bullying, the being miserable and misunderstood, the aloneness in the midst of a crowd of others who, unknowingly, were feeling the same pain. You saw the word BRAT, and felt worse for it. We saw BRAT PACK and reached, longed, to belong to anything like it. As you say, you did not have that relationship outside of the film studio. Neither did we. It was an illusion that sticks with me at 67 years old. I still want it. I still watch your movies. Thank you, all, from the bottom of my heart for your movies. All of them. For giving me something to reach for. Showing me that the torture didn’t have to lead to taking my own life. Thank you..

The 80s Brat pack are iconic in the 80s. Its a nice ideal of Andrew McCarthy to reunited all the original actors including Emilio and Demi who both dated each other during that time. Its going to be a very interested documentary for those who were a teenager in the 80s.

Where was Mare Winningham?! They completely left her out of the documentary! Even when Kevin McCarthy was listing out the members, he said 'who are we leaving out?'. Not one single mention of Mare Winningham throughout the entire documentary.

@janetta98

2 ай бұрын

I know! I was just thinking that...

@jedijones

2 ай бұрын

She's not in the cool crowd.

@ems1544

Ай бұрын

I listened to a podcast where Alec Baldwin interviewed Andrew McCarthy and he said out of everyone during the brat pack era he had a major crush on Mare Winningham. There’s probably a story there!

@peekaboots01

Ай бұрын

Wasn't she only in one movie? I don't remember her being in that pack.

@ems1544

Ай бұрын

@@peekaboots01 I didn’t say she was in the brat pack, I said during that era. They worked together on St. Elmo’s Fire. He told Alec Baldwin he always held her up as an ideal. She was slightly older and married with kids when they worked together, so was unattainable and didn’t run with that crowd or work with them frequently.

Did they ever get around to making weekend at bernies 3?

You brats need to go link up with tarantino or Spielberg and get some new waves going on in your careers?

I think it's kind of sad they all hate being a part of the brat pack. All the movies they were in were all box office hits and it made their careers. Those movies are timeless and at that time movies were so great! So much better than movies now in my opinion. I would be proud if I were them. I guess i can understand how it could've boxed them but because I watched the brat pack in those movies, it made me want to watch other movies they starred in individually. I'll always love the brat pack. I still watch all those old movies at least once a year

Andrew McCarthy is so dreamy 😍

LGBTQ+black are the only content.

It's a great documentary and really we all get these labels and have these things that hinder us. But in the end you will find yourself Standing Tall if you live life your way. As Frank said "I did it my way "and there's nothing more rewarding than that.

I’m a 3rd of the way in …….. and it’s outstanding. I realize what he’s doing with, and through, the documentary. It’s overdue therapy on film. Because they were all lonely actors 40 years ago who felt like they found genuine community in each other through their shared projects, then because of some petty journalist’s labeling them as half weights, they fled each other. The friendships dissolved due to overriding career concerns. The equally petty reviews I read about it prior to viewing it missed that mark. Because journalists remain erudite imbeciles. McCarthy almost starts crying on camera while talking with Estevez about his father dying. Many layers to this. Everything is psychology. Everything.

Such a memorable time and films that are relevant today! You all have Tremendous talent. Not elitist or whatever. That was a stupid label. Those of us your age, applaud you and shoe our teens those films. Be proud! What's the term Now? GOAT

$ $ $ -- it's nice to have the material to generate income.

He was the one I wanted to hookup with in the movie St Elmo's Fire love that movie. When I was 22 at the end of my College career

Didn't aged well

Andrew McCarthy sure seems bitter he wasn’t as popular as Rob Lowe and Ally Sheedy seems bitter she wasn’t as popular as Demi Moore and Emilio Estevez seems bitter he wasn’t as popular as his bro Charlie Sheen. The ones that saw the term Brat Pack as negative were the ones that didn’t do well later in life. I saw the rat pack as cool older entertainers and the brat pack as the cool younger entertainers.

@ems1544

Ай бұрын

He didn’t seem bitter, he’s been fairly open and clear headed about how his own insecurities and his alcoholism affected his career. He’s a successful TV director and award winning travel writer, he’s doing fine today. There’s nothing wrong with looking back on your youth with a mixture of complicated emotions.

McCarthy’s entire premise behind his book & documentary hinges on casting & talent agents not knowing what they were doing from 1985 onward. Which is false. The town simply didn’t see him - and some of the others - as the best choice for various features. With some of the others, it was an issue of their attitudes toward peers & representatives. Michael Hall infamously alienated Stanley Kubrick, ffs... The cream rises, always. Robert Downey, Jr., Sean Penn, James Spader, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Modine, Demi Moore, even Brad Pitt (not the best actor), managed to navigate around supposedly deleterious press labels & work consistently, winning accolades along the way. McCarthy’s doing fine, by the way. Directs television & clearly remains in the public eye 40 years later. Others, like Michael Schoeffling, took the hint & left the business entirely, to his great credit.

Andrew. We all just wanted to be part of something. To belong. It was you, Andrew, along with Judd, Molly, Ally, the Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, the music, the torture, the agony of not belonging, the bullying, the being miserable and misunderstood, the aloneness in the midst of a crowd of others who, unknowingly, were feeling the same pain. You saw the word BRAT, and felt worse for it. We saw BRAT PACK and reached, longed, to belong to anything like it. As you say, you did not have that relationship outside of the film. Neither did we. It was an illusion that sticks with me still..at 67 years old, I still want it. I still watch your movies. Thank you, all, from the bottom of my heart for your movies. All of them. For giving me something to reach for. Showing me that the torture didn’t have to lead to taking my own life. Thank you..