Line #34 Creator/BratPack


1	[[quoteright:250:[[Magazine/NewYork https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Brat_Pack_cover-250_5480.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:250:The magazine cover that first coined the term.]]
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4	The "Brat Pack" is the collective term for a group of young actors who came to fame in UsefulNotes/TheEighties and became virtually synonymous with coming-of-age movies, particularly the works of Creator/JohnHughes.
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6	Actors associated with the group included Creator/MollyRingwald, Creator/DemiMoore, Creator/JuddNelson, Creator/EmilioEstevez, Creator/AllySheedy, Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall, and Creator/RobLowe.
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8	Unlike the Creator/RatPack, however, the Brat Pack wasn't an established group who hung out and collaborated out of friendship. Rather, they were actors who happened to work together on a number of popular films and got lumped as a group because they attracted large audiences.
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10	The term itself was coined by writer David Blum in what was [[https://nymag.com/movies/features/49902/ actually a critical commentary]] about how the actors behaved, in Blum's view, liked brats off camera and seemed to represent the worst excesses of the 80's. However, audiences and the Hollywood press loved the term and applied it to the associated actors wherever they could. The actors themselves saw "Brat Pack" as a slur and, after the article's publication, began avoiding working together to distance themselves and avoid being tied to the term. Years later, however, many started accepting that they'd be forever linked to it, some even viewing it with affection.
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13	!!Films commonly associated with the Brat Pack:
14	[[index]]
15	* ''Film/AboutLastNight'': Rob Lowe, Demi Moore
16	* ''Film/BetsysWedding'': Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy
17	* ''Film/BlueCity'': Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson
18	* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy
19	* ''Film/{{Class\|1983}}'': Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rob Lowe
20	* ''Film/FreshHorses'': Molly Ringwald, Andrew [=McCarthy=]
21	* ''Film/TheOutsiders'': [[StarMakingRole Emilio Estevez]], [[StarMakingRole Rob Lowe]]
22	* ''Film/OxfordBlues'': Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy
23	* ''Film/PrettyInPink'': Molly Ringwald, Andrew [=McCarthy=]
24	* ''Film/StElmosFire'': Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Rob Lowe, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Emilio Estevez
25	* ''Film/SixteenCandles'': Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald
26	* ''Film/Wisdom1986'': Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore
27	[[/index]]
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29	!!Associated Tropes:
30	* AdultsAreUseless: Adults will generally have either a minor role, or act as {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s.
31	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: According to Rob Lowe, Creator/MichaelJFox used to complain to him about not being considered a member (although Lowe is pretty sure he was joking).
32	* AlphaBitch
33	* AtrociousAlias: The actors in question hated the term "Brat Pack" (not helped by the fact that the article that coined the phrase was actually critical of how the actors behaved like, well, ''brats'' off camera, and viewed to represent them as the worst excesses of the '80s) so much that they stopped working together almost immediately after the phrase was coined, making this trope directly responsible for the end of the short-lived Brat Pack "age."
34	* TheEighties And how! There's no way to NOT know what decade these films were set in.
35	* HighSchool: The setting for nearly every Brat Pack film; the only notable exceptions are ''Film/StElmosFire'' and ''Film/AboutLastNight''.
36	* InWithTheInCrowd
37	* MonochromeCasting: You might notice that all the actors and actresses mentioned above are Caucasian.
38	* ProductionPosse: The trope that led to the birth of the Brat Pack (as well as all future "Packs").
39	* SexAsRiteOfPassage
40	* UnnecessaryMakeover: A couple of the movies (though not all by far) feature one of these, such as Allison in ''The Breakfast Club'' and Ducky in ''Pretty In Pink'' (although the later is clearly meant to be temporary).

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