When an American magazine writer in the 1980s coined the phrase Brat Pack to describe the brash young stars of Hollywood’s new coming-of-age movies, he never imagined it would endure almost 40 years later.
Yet for decades actors including Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy and Judd Nelson could not escape the tag after featuring in beloved films such as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and St Elmo’s Fire.
Now, after years of debate over whether the nickname “mortally wounded everyone in its path”, some of the stars have confronted its legacy in a new documentary directed by McCarthy.
Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer and Andrew McCarthy on the set of Pretty in Pink in 1986
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Brats, from the US streaming service Hulu, explores the impact the nickname had on the group — which, according
