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Jun 9, 2024 · Twelve movies released between 1983 and 1990 are considered the Brat Pack films, ranging from forgettable dramas to enduring classics.
- 10 Best Brat Pack Movies From The 80s, Ranked (According To ...
Here are the 10 best films that starred at least one core...
- 10 Best Brat Pack Movies From The 80s, Ranked (According To ...
- The Breakfast Club. Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson. 741 votes. Five high school students from different social backgrounds are thrown together for Saturday detention and discover they have much more in common than they ever could have imagined.
- The Outsiders. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio. 555 votes. Based on S.E. Hinton's novel, this powerful drama delves into the rivalry between two groups of teenagers, the Greasers and the Socs, in a small Oklahoma town in the early 1960s.
- Sixteen Candles. Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling. 598 votes. Molly Ringwald shines as Samantha Baker, a high school sophomore whose family forgets her birthday in the midst of wedding plans, while she navigates her crush on a popular senior and the advances of a geeky admirer.
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara. 509 votes. Matthew Broderick stars as Ferris Bueller, a charming high school senior who fakes illness to enjoy an epic day off from school, dragging his best friend and girlfriend along for the adventure.
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- The Outsiders (1983) Coppola’s cast included (from left) Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze and Tom Cruise (Rex) (Rex Features)
- The Breakfast Club (1985) The Breakfast Club features John Hughes at the height of his powers. The ingenious move here was to take a semi-theatrical approach.
- Pretty in Pink (1986) Pretty in Pink arrived hot on the heels of The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. John Hughes wrote the script, but passed directing duties off to Howard Deutch.
- About Last Night... (1986) Chicago yuppies Dan (Rob Lowe) and Debbie (Demi Moore) can’t help coming back for more (Rex) (Rex Features) In a move similar to Less Than Zero, the film takes David Mamet’s prickly writings and smooths them out for the silver screen.
- No Small Affair (1984) – 57%
- The Pick-Up Artist (1987) – 57%
- Weird Science (1985) – 58%
- One Crazy Summer (1986) – 59%
- About Last Night (1986) – 61%
- The Outsiders (1983) – 63%
- Pretty in Pink (1986) – 76%
- Sixteen Candles (1984) – 85%
- The Breakfast Club (1985) – 89%
- War Games (1983) – 93%
One of only a few women in the Brat Pack, Demi Moore starredin more films in the 80s than one could count on two hands. In this film, which also starred Jon Cryer, a 16-year-old amateur photographer (Cryer) takes a photo of a woman (Moore) by accident. When he sees her in the photo once it's developed, it's love at first sight and he tries to track...
Molly Ringwald was the "it" girl of teen coming-of-age films of the 80s, and this was just one of many films in which she starred. In this romantic comedy, she starred alongside Robert Downey Jr. as a strong, independent woman who shocks a womanizing man by her indifference after they hook up. Naturally, he falls for her and pursues a real relation...
In this movie, Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith are Gary and Wallace, two geeky high school kids who, after being humiliated by some high school bullies (one of whom is played by Robert Downey Jr.) when they are caught gawking over their girlfriends, decide to try and build their own virtual woman. RELATED: 10 '80s Movies That Could Nev...
This romantic comedy technically only starred one core Brat Packer: Demi Moore. But it also includes another actor who was considered Brat Pack-adjacent: John Cusack. In it, Cusack is a high schooler named Hoops who, after failing to get into a prestigious school of design on a basketball scholarship, has to pen and illustrate a love story in order...
That same year, Moore also starred in this romantic comedy-drama with Rob Lowe, as yuppies from Chicago who enter into a real romantic relationship together for the first time. Based on the 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicagoby David Mamet, a 2014 remake of the film starred Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, and Regina Hall. It's an interesting story abo...
Starring several core Brat Packers, along with others who are honorary members, including Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane, this coming-of-age dramais set in the 60s and follows the story of tough, low-income teens and their rivalry with the wealthier kids in town. RELATED: The 5 Best ...
One of the many films to star Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy during the decade, this film, which also stars James Spader, has become a cult classic. Andie is an average high school girl with a quirky best friend who is secretly in love with her. And apparently so is the bullying rich kid who resents her because she once turned him down. Meanwhi...
This time, the object of Sam's (Ringwald's) affections is a senior named Jake, but she is too shy to tell him how she really feels. Plus, he has a girlfriend. Meanwhile, the geeky freshman is, of course, secretly in love with her. The story in this movie centers around Sam's sadness that her family is too busy and has seemingly forgotten her 16th b...
Arguably the film that best defines the Brat Pack, this John Hughes flick includes most main members: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. Again, set in high school, The Breakfast Clubis a teen coming-of-age comedy-drama that looks at a group of very different kids who are all stuck in detention togeth...
Ally Sheedy is the only core Brat Packer to appear in this film, though it also stars Matthew Broderick, who some consider to be a member as well. This one is a sci-fi film that tells the story of a young hacker who accidentally accesses a U.S. supercomputer designed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. He makes it run, thinking it's only a...
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Jun 13, 2024 · Here’s everything to know about the Brat Pack’s movies like ‘The Outsiders,’ ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ and ‘Sixteen Candles’
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Mar 5, 2022 · The group of young actors known as The Brat Pack made some of the most era-defining movies of the mid-1980s, and these are their greatest films.
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