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This Ends at Prom

St. Elmo's Fire, 40 Years Later

This Ends at Prom

Brennan Klein

Film Reviews, Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Kirby: "I always thought we'd be friends forever."

Kevin: "Yeah, well forever got a lot shorter all of a sudden."

Despite popular belief, the Brack Pack wasn't established with a John Hughes movie, but instead in the wake of a film about recent college graduates struggling to adjust to adulthood called ST. ELMO'S FIRE. Over the past 40 years, the film has been declared "one of the worst films ever made," despite a star-studded cast of all-time greats, including Academy Award-nominee, Demi Moore. Does the movie deserve the hate? What does the Brat Pack obsession say about us as a culture? The Wives Colangelo are diving deep into the 1980s to talk about a movie they weren't alive to see during its debut, and trying to make sense of how this movie and those who made it would change pop culture forever.

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Article Referenced

I Don't Think One 1985 Brat Pack Movie Deserves The Unfair Hate It Gets: https://screenrant.com/st-elmos-fire-criticism-reviews-negative-wrong/

St. Elmo’s Fire Might Be the Worst Movie Ever: https://consequence.net/2015/06/worst-movie-ever-st-elmos-fire/

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Logo Design: Haley Doodles @HaleyDoodleDo

Theme Song: The Sonder Bombs 'Title': https://thesonderbombs.bandcamp.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings and salutations. And welcome to This Ends at Prom. A coming of age podcast highlighting

0:06.9

cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined

0:13.4

by my wife. Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. Is

0:19.0

today's movie a Queen Bee?

0:22.8

Or are we killing the teen dream?

0:23.9

Get in loser.

0:25.5

We're analyzing the movies.

0:27.5

People make fun of us for loving.

0:31.4

I don't want to be your merch girl.

0:34.6

I want to be your goddamn idol.

0:38.4

And I don't want to have to work twice as hard For the same motherfucking title

0:41.3

But I

0:43.3

Realize

0:48.3

That I

0:50.3

Probably won't

0:53.3

Be so fucking probably won't be so lucky

0:55.5

See, I thought you

0:58.0

Yeah

1:01.0

Welcome back prom party.

1:06.0

Beep

1:07.0

Bebittab da,

1:08.0

Bannup bade a...

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