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1985 American coming of age film

According to Schumacher, "a lot of people turned down the script the head of [one] major studio called its seven member cast ‘the most loathsome humans he had ever read on the page.’" The producers interviewed "hundreds of people" for the cast, including Anthony Edwards and Lea Thompson. According to Lauren Shuler Donner, she found Estevez, Nelson, and Sheedy through recommendations from John Hughes, who had cast them in The Breakfast Club; Schumacher said he had to "push hard" to get the studio to agree to cast the three. Demi Moore had to go to rehab before shooting. "I think there are people who go to college because it's kind of what's accepted," said Lowe. "I feel unfortunately sometimes it's used as a holding tank, waiting to go into the real world, instead of for education. I think there are people who can go into the marketplace after high school and do well." "I think I'm probably going to be criticized a lot," said Nelson. "My character is very straight, very conservative, very career oriented. After Breakfast Club, I think people will say I should have played another street punk. They'll criticize me for not doing what I'm good at, for trying something new." "It's refreshing to play someone who isn't defined by who her boyfriend is or what her body looks like," said Sheedy.

Principal photography began early October 1984, just after executive producer Ned Tanen had been appointed as president of Paramount Pictures' motion picture division. The private Catholic, Jesuit Georgetown University would not permit filming on campus, with their administrators citing questionable content such as premarital sex. As a result, the university seen on film is the public University of Maryland located 10 miles (16 km) away in College Park. The bar used as St. Elmo's is The Tombs in Georgetown. "I loved wearing the clothes," said Moore, "I've always been such a tom boy." St. Elmo's Fire isn't drama, it's gossip, and peculiarly early adolescent gossip— a movie designed to be picked apart on the telephone. The turbidly self important treatment of these vacuous college graduates, each one a 'type', is like a TV sitcom without jokes. St. Elmo's Fire is so depressing a [[portent (divination)

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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 42%, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "St. Elmo's Fire is almost peak Brat Pack: it's got the cast, the fashion, and the music, but the characters are too frequently unlikable." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 35 out of 100, based on reviews from 15 critics. Rob Lowe won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his work in this film. In a 2015 retrospective review, Justin Gerber of Consequence of Sound said that he was "prepared to say it's the worst movie of all time, with all the necessary stipulations lined up and accounted for", going on to criticize the characters, plot, set, direction, and even score.

The film opened strongly, earning $6.1 million in its first week. The film ended up making $37.8 million. It outperformed other box office disappointments from Columbia Pictures that year, including Silverado, The Bride and Perfect.

It was the first soundtrack written by Canadian composer/producer David Foster. "When I was writing the score to St. Elmo's Fire, I loved it," he said. "But for that month and a half or so that I had to write the songs, it just felt like doing my regular job." The theme song "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" was written by Foster and English musician John Parr, and also performed by Parr. Foster had been impressed by Parr's song "Naughty Naughty" and invited him to perform the title track. Originally another song was chosen which Parr disliked. "That song sounded like Fame II or Flashdance II, Parr later said. "I thought the movie was supposed to have more class than that. It was a regurgitated song, and I didn't really want to sing it." Parr was inspired to write the lyrics not by the movie (which he had not seen) but by the Canadian athlete Rick Hansen, who, at the time, was traveling around the world, via his wheelchair, to raise awareness for spinal cord injuries, a trip called the "Man in Motion Tour". The song did not appear on any Parr album until Letter to America was released in July 2011. The song "Give Her a Little Drop More,” which plays during the movie when the characters enter St. Elmo's Bar & Restaurant, was written by British jazz trumpeter John Chilton. "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" hit No. 1 on Billboards Hot 100 chart for two weeks in September 1985, and "Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire" (the instrumental theme to the movie by David Foster) reached No. 15. Another version of the "Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire" with lyrics, titled "For Just a Moment", was performed by Amy Holland and Donny Gerrard, and was included as the final song on the soundtrack album.

The music video of "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" serves as a mini sequel to the film, which features all seven of the main cast reuniting and looking sadly through the broken and dirty windows of a run down and fire damaged St. Elmo's Bar. The video was directed by Kort Falkenberg III, who devised the concept with the film's director, Joel Schumacher.

In August 2009, Sony Pictures Television received a "script commitment with a penalty attached to it" to adapt the film into a television series, which would "use the movie as a takeoff point and as an inspiration as it introduces six new friends: three boys and three girls." Topher Grace and Gordon Kaywin of Sargent Hall Productions proposed the idea to Jamie Tarses; the three of them then recruited Dan Bucatinsky to write the pilot and got Schumacher to agree to the idea.