Brat Pack
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The "Brat Pack" was a group of young actors and actresses that became famous in the 1980s and frequently appeared in teen-oriented films together. The name "Brat Pack" came from a 1985 cover story in New York magazine by David Blum (June 10, 1985, pp. 40-47). The term is a play on the Rat Pack from the 1960s. Popular films that featured members of the "Brat Pack" include:
- About Last Night (1986)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- The Lost Boys (1987)
- The Outsiders (1983)
- Pretty in Pink (1986)
- Sixteen Candles (1984)
- St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
- Weird Science (1985)
- Young Guns (1988)
The actors most often mentioned as Brat Pack members are:
- Emilio Estevez
- Anthony Michael Hall
- Rob Lowe
- Andrew McCarthy
- Judd Nelson
- Molly Ringwald
- Ally Sheedy
- Demi Moore
- Mare Winningham
Other actors could be considered auxiliary members of the Pack: Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Melissa Gilbert, Charlie Sheen, James Spader, Robert Downey, Jr., Jennifer Grey, Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Kiefer Sutherland, John Cusack and Matthew Broderick. Frequent directors of Brat Pack films were John Hughes and Joel Schumacher.
The name "Literary Brat Pack" was given to a trio of up and coming, young, and mediagenic authors in the 1980s: Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, and Tama Janowitz. While their books did not have much in common, they were seen by the public as closely related because of the way they were typical 80s celebrities, making videos on MTV, partying with models, and so on.
There is a song entitled "Brat Pack" by The Rocket Summer
