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Demi Moore is celebrating her 1985 breakout, St. Elmo’s Fire, on the 39th anniversary of its release.
The actress posted an Instagram Reel on Friday, June 28, showing her character, Jules Van Patten, throughout the movie, set to Charli XCX’s “365.”
“Jules would have loved Brat Girl Summer,” she captioned the post. “Happy 39th birthday to #StElmosFire!”
St. Elmo’s Fire follows a group of recent college graduates as they transition to life in the real world. Jules is a banker and party girl who falls on hard times when she loses her job and her excessive spending catches up to her.
The Brat Pack will be reuniting to grace screens for the first time since the height of their Hollywood reign. Andrew McCarthy, best known for his starring roles in Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire, is bringing the famed group of actors back together for a Hulu documentary — aptly titled Brats — that […]
Despite receiving negative reviews at the time, St. Elmo’s Fire was a box office success, becoming a cult classic and one of the forerunners to the famed Brat Pack. The group of 1980s actors featured St. Elmo’s Fire stars Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Emilio Esteves, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy, as well as Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall.
The group reunited for a McCarthy-directed Hulu documentary, Brats, which released on June 13. Moore reflected on the chance to revisit the Brat Pack’s height.
Mare Winningham, Demi Moore and Ally Sheedy in ‘St Elmo’s Fire.’ Cover Images
“I had such a great time sitting down and talking with [McCarthy.] I’m sad there wasn’t an opportunity where we were all sitting in a room together, talking,” she said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “That’s my only wish. It’s something very unique to all of us that we experienced.”
She added that the group didn’t always like being referred to as the Brat Pack.
Andrew McCarthy is reclaiming the Brat Pack name with help from his former costars — some of whom he hadn’t seen in 30 years. Spoilers for Brats ahead. “If you were coming of age in the 1980s, then the Brat Pack was at or near the center of your cultural awareness,” McCarthy, 61, said during […]
None of us really liked the idea of being called ‘brats,’ or that we weren’t professionals or didn’t take our work seriously,” she said. “It was such an interesting, curious thing. We all had different experiences. [The Brat Pack] was very impactful for Andrew, and shifted the direction of his career.”
Moore’s decision to use “365” in her commemorative post is fitting. It’s the final track on Charli XCX’s album, Brat, which she released on June 7. That led her fanbase to dub summer 2024 “Brat Girl Summer.”
Charli described what Brat Girl Summer means to her in an appearance on the “BBC Sounds Sidetracked” podcast.
Charli XCX and The 1975’s George Daniel went from musical collaborators to a Hollywood love story. The duo met when working together on the March 2021 song “Spinning.” Daniel also assisted the “Boom Clap” singer with various songs on her Crash album, which was released in March 2022. Dating rumors were sparked soon after, and […]
“It can be, like, so trashy — like a pack of cigs, a Bic lighter and a strappy white top with no bra,” she said. “That’s like, kind of all you need.”
Slate’s review of Brat took it a little further, describing the overall aesthetic of what would become Brat Girl Summer.
“The themes colliding this summer — our f—it indulgences, the feeling of being over, a crushing sense of nihilism that has no cure other than, perhaps, dancing in a smoke-filled basement — are perfectly encapsulated by Charli XCX’s new album Brat,” Slate’s Scaachi Koul wrote.
Exactly the type of summer that would make Jules Van Patten proud.
