St. Elmo's Fire (Widescreen) R

The passion burns deep.
St. Elmo's Fire (Widescreen)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 23, 2001
  • Originally Released: 1985
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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Entertainment Reviews:

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Total Count: 39

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 55,573
Rating: 0/4 -- there's a perceptive, brilliant essay buried somewhere in St. Elmo's Fire on the dangers of deeply, tragically stupid people trying to write the great American novel. Full Review
Film Freak Central
Oct 13, 2009
These aren't characters -- they're character hooks. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 3, 2018
Estevez and Nelson are as unappealing here as in The Breakfast Club, though in fairness they're hampered by a script that seems to despise its characters. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
St. Elmo's Fire is all about a group of recent college graduates in Washington who were always the best of friends but now are drifting apart as real life approaches, discovering various reasons why they are so individually obnoxious. Full Review
Variety
Oct 18, 2008
...Seven attention-getting young stars....ST. ELMO'S FIRE is as good a film as any to put into a time capsule this year...
New York Times
Jun 28, 1985
The film is edited so skittishly that the actors are barely able to complete their sentences, let alone their thoughts. That's probably just as well. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Rating: 4/5 -- From the music to the iffy fashions, director Joel Schumacher and his cast capture the 80s in one supercool microcosm. Full Review
Sky Cinema
Jul 13, 2017

Product Description:

Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favorite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) and Leslie (Ally Sheedy) are career-minded and heading towards marriage. Virginal Wendy (Mare Winningham) only has eyes for wild, would-be rocker Billy (Rob Lowe)--whose wife and child don't prevent him from trying to relive his college days. Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) ponders the meaning of life and secretly desires Leslie, while his roommate Kirbo (Estevez) pursues an elusive older woman (Andie McDowell). Jules (Demi Moore) rounds out the group with her massive debts and cocaine problem. Joel Schumacher's twentysomething ensemble piece stands, for better or worse, as a revealing peek into the popular cinema--and values--of the 1980s. The film also represented a graduation of sorts, as Estevez, Sheedy, and Nelson portrayed high school students in John Hughes's THE BREAKFAST CLUB earlier in 1985.

Product Description:

Seven friends, recent college graduates, are searching for a place in the real world, as they face issues of career and commitment. Leslie and Alec (Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson) try to save a crumbling romance. Wendy (Mare Winningham), a shy virgin, hides a love for Billy (Rob Lowe), a reluctant father/husband still searching for goals. Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) is a cynical writer who scorns love until he realizes he's in love with his best friend's girl. Kirbo (Emilio Estevez), a law student, obsessively pursues an older woman. The beautiful, neurotic Jules (Demi Moore) paints a poignant picture of life in the fast lane. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo's, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love one another as only the closest of friends can.

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  • Sales Rank: 120,307
  • UPC: 043396065413
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