Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Brat Pack"

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Kansas *** (1988, Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, Leslie Hope) – Classic Movie Review 7330

Director David Stevens’s 1988 romantic crime thriller Kansas stars a finally clearly post-teen idol Matt Dillon (then 24), who is well cast as Doyle Kennedy, a psychopathic ex-convict who involves middle-class hitchhiker Wade Corey (Andrew […]

Jul, 23

Weird Science *** (1985, Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 5072

‘It’s all in the name of science. Weird Science.’ Two (now sadly eclipsed) Eighties Brat Pack actors, Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith, are the engaging stars of writer-director John Hughes’s wacky 1985 teen comedy […]

Feb, 27

About Last Night… **** (1986, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 2042

In his directorial debut, Edward Zwick’s cunning 1986 romantic comedy drama offers key Brat Pack actors Rob Lowe and Demi Moore the chance to grow up in the movies in a clever David Mamet piece, […]

Jan, 04

The Breakfast Club **** (1985, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1786

Writer-director John Hughes’s fondly remembered 1985 movie is perhaps the key film of the Eighties phenomenon known as the Brat Pack, inspiring the movement and making the director’s reputation. It followed Sixteen Candles (1984), his first […]

Oct, 29

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