St. Elmo's Fire (1985) on Netflix
Seven Georgetown graduates try to keep their friendship together as Alec presses Leslie to marry, Kirby pursues Dale and Billy stays away from his family.
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Trailer
Plot summary
After graduation, a close group of Georgetown friends keeps meeting at St. Elmo's Bar, where Kirby waits tables while studying toward law school. Alec, aiming at a political career, wants Leslie to marry him, but she wants to make her own name as an architect first. Kirby is in love with Dale Biberman, a doctor he knew during his college years. Kevin, a struggling writer and Kirby's roommate, says he does not believe in love. Billy, married with a child, plays the saxophone and avoids responsibility. Wendy, whose family has money, works in social services and is devoted to Billy. Jules works at a bank and lives beyond her means.
Cast
- Jon Cutleras Howie Krantz
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
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- The head of one major studio called the script's seven-member cast "the most loathsome humans he had ever read on the page", and Joel Schumacher said he had to "push hard" to get the studio to agree to cast Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy.
- The private Catholic Jesuit Georgetown University would not permit filming on campus, its administrators citing questionable content such as premarital sex, so the university seen on film is the public University of Maryland, 10 miles away in College Park.
- Journalist David Blum coined the term "Brat Pack" after meeting members of the cast on the occasion of the release of St. Elmo's Fire.
- Foster showed John Parr a news clip about the Canadian athlete Rick Hansen, who was going around the world in his wheelchair on a journey called the "Man in Motion Tour", and Parr wrote words that directly referenced Hansen's efforts.
- Parr said he and Foster wrote "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" "very fast, between 2 and 4 on Friday afternoon", after Joel Schumacher asked for "a song about kids who are growing up and have to make decisions about what to do with their lives".
- Rob Lowe won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his work in this film at the 6th Golden Raspberry Awards.
