| | | You can always count on your friends. Don't ever let the fire go out.
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Surround Sound, French, Spanish, Dubbed & Subtitled, Subtitled
Seven friends, recent college graduates, are searching for their place in "the real world," as they face issues of career and commitment. Leslie and Alec (Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson) try to save a crumbling romance. Wendy (Mare Winningham), a shy virgin, hides a love for Billy (Rob Lowe), a reluctant father/husband still searching for his goals. Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) is a cynical writer who scorns love until he realizes he's in love with his best friend's girl. Kirby (Emilio Estevez), a law student, obsessively pursues an older woman. The beautiful, neurotic Jules (Demi Moore) paints a poignant picture of life in the fast lane. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo's, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love one another as only the closest of friends can.
"Slick vehicle for some charismatic young actors." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favorite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) and Leslie (Ally Sheedy) are career-minded and heading towards marriage. Virginal Wendy (Mare Winningham) only has eyes for wild, would-be rocker Billy (Rob Lowe)--whose wife and child don't prevent him from trying to relive his college days. Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) ponders the meaning of life and secretly desires Leslie, while his roommate Kirbo (Estevez) pursues an elusive older woman (Andie McDowell). Jules (Demi Moore) rounds out the group with her massive debts and cocaine problem. Joel Schumacher's twentysomething ensemble piece stands, for better or worse, as a revealing peek into the popular cinema--and values--of the 1980s. The film also represented a graduation of sorts, as Estevez, Sheedy, and Nelson portrayed high school students in John Hughes's THE BREAKFAST CLUB earlier in 1985.
| Features | Production Notes | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Music Video "Man In Motion" | | Theatrical Trailers | | Filmographies | | Subtitles: English French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai | | Director's Commentary | | Original Featurette | | Widescreen Version | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Aamorphic Video | | Audio: English 2-Channel Dolby Surround & 4.0 Discreet Dolby Surround; French, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | St. Elmo's Fire - DVD Review By: Pete Croatto - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/31/2009 7:48 PM | |
St. Elmo's Fire wants your sympathy in profiling the ups and downs of friends and recent Georgetown University graduates adjusting to the real world. It never happens because there's not one character who is remotely likable or has a problem that hits home. The movie makes Friends look like Five Easy Pieces. The grads all live in Washington, D.C., but call their old college haunt, St. Elmo's Bar, home. There's Alec (Judd Nelson), a womanizing, hotshot politician's aide, who desperately wants to marry Leslie (Ally Sheedy), who is in no hurry to settle down since she and Alec have just moved into an apartment roughly the size of an airplane hangar....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 12/21/2004 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1985 | | Catalog ID: 06541 | | UPC: 00043396065413 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Portuguese Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Seven attention-getting young stars....ST. ELMO'S FIRE is as good a film as any to put into a time capsule this year..." 06/28/1985 p.C6Variety
"...The whole picture proceeds with assurance..." 06/19/1985 |
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