Brat Pack (actors): Difference between revisions

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[[File:Brat_Pack_cover-250_5480.jpg|frame|The magazine cover that first coined the term]]

[[The Eighties]] answer to the [[Rat Pack]], consisting of the most popular teen movie actors of the day. These included [[Molly Ringwald]], [[Demi Moore]], [[Matthew Broderick]], [[Judd Nelson]], [[Emilio Estevez]], [[Ally Sheedy]], [[Andrew Mc Carthy]], [[Robert Downey, Jr.]], [[Anthony Michael Hall]], [[Rob Lowe]], [[Matt Dillon]] and arguably [[Tom Cruise]] and [[Judge Reinhold]]. Virtually synonymous with the films of [[John Hughes]].

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{{quote|"The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors and actresses who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s.}}

{{quote|The term, a play on the Rat Pack from the 1950s and 1960s, was first popularized in a 1985 New York magazine cover story, which described a group of roughly interchangeable, but already highly successful and rich teen stars. The group has been characterized by the excessive partying of core members such as [[Rob Lowe]], [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]., [[Judd Nelson]] and [[Emilio Estevez]], while their films have been described as representative of "the socially apathetic, cynical, money-possessed and ideologically barren eighties generation." The movies made frequent use of adolescent archetypes, were often set in the suburbs surrounding Chicago, and focused on white, middle-class teenage angst.}}

{{quote|The term, a play on the Rat Pack from the 1950s and 1960s, was first popularized in a 1985 New York magazine cover story, which described a group of roughly interchangeable, but already highly successful and rich teen stars. The group has been characterized by the excessive partying of core members such as [[Rob Lowe]], [[Robert Downey, Jr.]], [[Judd Nelson]] and [[Emilio Estevez]], while their films have been described as representative of "the socially apathetic, cynical, money-possessed and ideologically barren eighties generation." The movies made frequent use of adolescent archetypes, were often set in the suburbs surrounding Chicago, and focused on white, middle-class teenage angst.}}

{{quote|The "Brat Pack" moniker, often considered in a pejorative sense, was not known to be used by members of the group."}}

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~~===~~ Films commonly associated with the [[Brat Pack]]: ~~===~~

* [[The Breakfast Club]]

* [[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]

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* [[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]

=== Associated Tropes: ===

* [[Alpha Bitch]]

* [[The Clique]]

* [[The Eighties]] (and how! there's no way ~~NOT~~ to know what decade the films are set in)

* [[The Eighties]] (and how! there's no way ''not'' to know what decade the films are set in)

* [[In with the In Crowd]]