Seven friends and recent college graduates struggle to find their place in the real world. Leslie and Alec try to save their crumbling romance whilst Kevin scorns love until he discovers that he’s fallen for his best friend’s girl. Whilst Kirbo obsessively pursues an older woman, Wendy struggles to get her own life and love. And whilst Billy leaves a trail of human wreckage behind him, clinging to his college life, Jules is facing financial ruin and needs to confide in someone.
Before The Breakfast Club there was St. Elmo’s Fire; a subtle drama about seven friends who thought they’d be friends forever.
Seven friends and recent college graduates struggle to find their place in the real world. Leslie and Alec try so save their crumbling romance whilst Kevin scorns love until he discovers that he has fallen for his best friend’s girl. Whilst Kirbo obsessively pursues an older woman, Wendy struggles to get her own life and love. And while Billy cannot adapt to adult life and leaves a constant trail of human wreckage behind him as a result, Jules is facing financial ruin, life in the fast lane, and needs a friend to confide in.
Seven friends and recent college graduates struggle to find their place in the real world. Leslie and Alec try so save their crumbling romance whilst Kevin scorns love until he discovers that he has fallen for his best friend’s girl. Whilst Kirbo obsessively pursues an older woman, Wendy struggles to get her own life and love. And while Billy cannot adapt to adult life and leaves a constant trail of human wreckage behind him as a result, Jules is facing financial ruin, life in the fast lane, and needs a friend to confide in.
I didn’t mind this film, but I will say that it’s not the most amazing piece of cinema to come out of the 80s. Everything about it was subtle: the relationship between each of the friends, the dramas each one faces, and then how some of the separate stories integrated and overlapped.
If I’m honest, this film was just sort of there. There was no great warm-hearted coming-together like The Breakfast Club and, even though there was a nice sort of closure after the drama that happened, it left you with a kind of an “oh” feeling, you know, not quite satisfied.
All the performances were great though and, as a girl, I could not help but get lost in the folds of Rob Lowe’s handsomeness.
Starring Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Mare Winningham, Emilio Estevez, Martin Balsam, and Andie MacDowell, St. Elmo’s Fire was a fine drama that was filled with romance, drugs, sex, betrayal, and friendship. It’s worth watching, but it’s not the greatest friendship film to come out of the 80s.
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