R | 1h 50m | Drama | 1985
Most critics took a condescending stance towards “St. Elmo’s Fire” when it first released. Forty years later, it’s still at 45-percent critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I’d graduated college only three years prior to its release, so my vague memory of it is that I could relate, somewhat, to the Brat Pack’s depiction of the existential hand-wringing and shenanigans 20-somethings get up to directly post-college. Not so much to things like frequenting the same bars with a college clique and heavy drinking.
