St. Elmo’s Fire (1985, Joel Schumacher)

Watched at work, fullscreen (from 2.35!) but uncensored. Even though I was paying close attention to the dialogue (to capture sound clips for a Lifetime promo) and picture (to capture iconic images for the same), I failed to follow the plot and character business.

It seems Emilio Estevez is in love with an older and attached Andie McDowell, and this is back when stalking was totally fun and romantic, not creepy and scary. Longhair rebel Rob Lowe wishes he was back in college. Demi Moore is overloading on drugs and men and teetering on edge of nervous breakdown. And I got confused by Judd Nelson’s name, so thought for a while that Andrew McCarthy was Judge Reinhold. I think McCarthy is an aspiring writer, and big cheater Nelson wants to marry Ally Sheedy, but McCarthy’s in love with her too.

The music sux0red, the pan-and-scan sux0red, movie was forgettable.

Where Are They Now: Andrew McCarthy in the remake Kingdom Hospital, Judd Nelson suddenly in a bunch of horrors, Mare Winningham recurring role in Grey’s Anatomy, Andie MacDowell in commercials for makeup or something.