History Creator / BratPack

* 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 Creator/BratPack "age."

* AtrociousAlias: The actors in question hated the term "Brat Pack" 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 Creator/BratPack "age."

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.

* ''Film/{{Wisdom}}'': Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore

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.

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.

TheEighties answer to the Creator/RatPack, consisting of the most popular teen movie actors of the day. The main members of the group included Creator/MollyRingwald, Creator/DemiMoore, Creator/JuddNelson, Creator/EmilioEstevez, Creator/AllySheedy, Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall and Creator/RobLowe. Virtually synonymous with the '80s films of Creator/JohnHughes.

Wiki/TheOtherWiki also states:

->"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.

->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 Creator/RobLowe, Creator/RobertDowneyJr, Creator/JuddNelson and Creator/EmilioEstevez, 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.

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

Act as a SpiritualSuccessor to the '60s Creator/RatPack, and have their own TurnOfTheMillennium Spiritual Successors in the Creator/FratPack.

TheEighties answer to the Creator/RatPack, consisting of the most popular teen movie actors of the day. The main members of the group included Creator/MollyRingwald, Creator/DemiMoore, Creator/JuddNelson, Creator/EmilioEstevez, Ally Sheedy, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall and Creator/RobLowe. Virtually synonymous with the '80s films of Creator/JohnHughes.

Act as a SpiritualSuccessor to the '60s Creator/RatPack, and have their own Spiritual Successors today in the Creator/FratPack.

* ''Film/{{Class}}'': Andrew [=McCarthy=], Rob Lowe

TheEighties answer to the Creator/RatPack, consisting of the most popular teen movie actors of the day. The main members of the group included Creator/MollyRingwald, Creator/DemiMoore, Creator/JuddNelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall and Creator/RobLowe. Virtually synonymous with the '80s films of Creator/JohnHughes.

* ProductionPosse: [[invoked]] The trope that led to the birth of the Brat Pack (as well as all future "Packs").

* UnnecessaryMakeover: [[invoked]] 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).

TheEighties answer to the Creator/RatPack, consisting of the most popular teen movie actors of the day. The main members of the group included Creator/MollyRingwald, Creator/DemiMoore, Creator/JuddNelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Anthony Michael Hall and Creator/RobLowe. Virtually synonymous with the '80s films of Creator/JohnHughes.

* ''Film/StElmosFire'' : Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Rob Lowe, Andrew [=McCarthy=], Emilio Estevez

* ''Film/{{Wisdom}}'' : Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore

* TheEighties And how! There's no way to NOT to know what decade these films were set in.

* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Emilo Estevez, Ally Sheedy
* ''Film/{{Class}}'': Andrew Mcarthy, Rob Lowe
* ''Film/FreshHorses'': Emilo Estevez, Demi Moore
* ''Film/TheOutsiders'': [[StarMakingRole Emilo Estevez]], [[StarMakingRole Rob Lowe]]

* ''Film/PrettyInPink'': Molly Ringwald, Andrew Mcarthy
* ''Film/StElmosFire'' : Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Rob Lowe, Andrew Mcarthy, Emilo Estevez

* ''Film/{{Wisdom}}'' : Emilo Estevez, Demi Moore

* ''Film/OxfordBlues''
* ''Film/PrettyInPink''
* ''Film/StElmosFire''
* ''Film/SixteenCandles''
* ''Film/WeirdScience''
* ''Film/{{Wisdom}}''

* ''Film/AboutLastNight''
* ''Film/BlueCity''
* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''
* ''Film/{{Class}}''
* ''Film/FreshHorses''
* ''Film/TheOutsiders''