Brats (2024)

• Year: 2024
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15823728/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/brats
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• Keywords: teen movie, hollywood, 1980s,

	7.1/10
	75% – Critics
	false% – Audience

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Centers on 1980s films starring the ‘Brat Pack’ and their profound impact on the young stars’ lives.

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Great watch, grew up dead center in that era

Obviously this film will be a bit divisive, but I think it was very courageous by AM. For those of us born between say 67 (66?) and 71 (72?) it brought many visceral reactions. Yeah, maybe AM’s project was in and of itself “bratty”, but so what. After hearing Blum out as well as the others it’s kind of an “all’s fair in love and war” theme. He was a young journalist building a career and it was within the bounds of what makes America great. AM isn’t being any nicer here. Even if you deem AM’s project a whine fest, if it earns him new looks from Hollywood and/or the public, good for him.

Here’s the thing though – both my older and younger siblings were born just outside the 67-71 timeframe, the “brat pack” films didn’t have nearly the same impact as they did with me and the group I with which I grew up (68-70). Same will be true with AM’s project. More importantly, not a single one of us read the article… Still haven’t. Until I watched this film I had absolutely no idea the “brat pack” moniker had anything very negative associated with it. No one, not even people who were in high school in suburbs of Chicago in the mid 80s can really wax intelligent prose on this whole debate if they didn’t see each of the films at the theater in their day AND read the entire, original article.

I thought it was enjoyable to watch, so the guys I did a lot of dumb things with in the mid 80s.

Let the healing begin, Andrew.

Andrew McCarthy makes an earnest attempt to put his own struggles with what I always just assumed was a convenient turn of the Sinatra and friend’s super cool “Rat Pack” nickname, into an 80s-ready contrivance for a hack reporter to weild as a cudgel against a coterie of successful actors who were younger and more talented than he was, to rest.

And in the end McCarthy does seem to make peace with the ‘Brat Pack’ moniker and its implications.

Along the way we find out that a few of those talented young actors allowed it to define their very careers and one or two of them are convinced it changed the entire trajectory of their professional lives.

A far more important consideration should be writer/director, John Hughes, and the impact on the Brat Pack’s careers and the films that he made that many would agree, defined a generation.

Someone may have already delved into the Hughes’ genius and the legacy he left for us to enjoy.

Reflections on what life could be

It’s interesting to hear what other reviewers have to say about director Andrew McCarthy’s vision and compilation of this documentary. Words such as whiny or whack always seem to accompany people’s shortsidedness and forget that even though this is not the typical life, it is still someone’s life.

What was most interesting is to see the different reactions of those who were in the Brat Pack and those who were Brat Pack “Adjacent.” McCarthy’s story comes from a perspective that an article written by a journalist, which we come to find out had gotten his idea from a dinner where he was labeled. Being 29 in the 80’s wasn’t considered young and he was looking for something to propel him to the next stage of his career. So were McCarthy, Nelson, Ringwald, Sheedy, Lowe, Moore and Estevez. The main difference is that the journalist’s life wasn’t nearly affected the way he wanted, and had no remorse for how it might have affected the lives of those he wrote about.

The issue is that we as humans root for people to be successful until we feel they’re too successful, become jealous and ultimately find a way to knock them down a peg. Granted it comes with fame and it just so happened that it hit McCarthy, Nelson and Ringwald the hardest. The others have gone on to much longer and more diverse careers, yet we have a hard time feeling sorry for those people who seemingly had it easy.

Ask yourself if there’s an event in your life that you still haven’t dealt with. If you have adjusted to all trauma, kudos to you! Do you know someone in your family that hasn’t? I think this was the crux of what McCarthy was trying to figure out through the exploration of people that meant a great deal to him at one time, yet never really got the answers to why it bothered everyone so. You can see the natural catharsis he goes through as he talks to Sheedy, Lowe, and even a casting director that gave him a different spin on the stigma of the Brat Pack.

All in all, the lesson that they all took mostly 30 years to learn is that you’re presented with two choices when being pigeon holed in Hollywood. You can allow it to dictate your career for the worse or you can rise above it like several of them did. I believe that McCarthy got the peace he was searching for.

Regardless if you like the documentary or not, movies would not be the same without their generational success.