St Elmo's Fire deals with a bunch of recent Georgetown University graduates and it chronicles their transition from college years into adulthood. I have a great fondness for this film having gone from graduate school to a 'what the heck comes next?' scenario This film really encapsulates all of the angst and woe, along with the occasional joy of growing up and being responsible. The characters are fairly stereotypical and most of them are obnoxious (for example - Demi Moore as a self obsessed flirtatious and self destructive moron of a woman) but again you will find yourself identifying with different characters, situations and scenarios in the movie depending on your individual taste. It boasts an excellent score including the theme tune by John Parr, which has (somewhat unfortunately) become synonymous with 80s cheese. Joel Schumacher directed a defining film of the 1980s Me generation: his characters may be horrible, but their personal lives are compelling. He definitely was not going to usurp John Hughes' position of the cinematic voice of 1980s youth, but he did a fair amount to emulate his success. Robe Lowe won a Razzie for Worst Supporting actor in the film for being an ex frat boy who cannot give up this clownish way of life in order to be a responsible husband and father, which was richly deserved but in spite of that, St Elmo's Fire endures as an absorbing and entertaining film.
My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
