I just looked up a recent (2010) picture of Ally Sheedy—While still attractive to me, time hasn’t been quite as kind to her as it has with some other actresses of her age, like the still beautiful Demi Moore or Molly Ringwald, who also looks great.
Wonder if some of her questionable personal habits are in part to blame; It seems like I heard that she was struggling with Rx drug abuse a few years back, maybe she never quite got a hold of her taste for it…
Or, y’know, maybe 25 years have passed. Few of us look as good as we used to.
Winningham also played Meredith Gray’s stepmother on Gray’s Anatomy in an occasionally recurring role for a couple seasons until they killed her off.
Coincidentally, this movie is currently on cable here.
I’m not watching, although I’m tempted, based on this thread, just to do a MST3K reaction.
It’s a play on one of Shakespeare’s most famous (because it’s snickeringly absurd) stage directions, {exit, pursued by a bear}, from ‘The Winter’s Tale.’ Cite: The Winter's Tale - Wikipedia
Really well done, Sam A. Robrin!
Ya, I liked Breakfast Club way better.
But, one of the most quoted lines of that year among my group of friends came from SEF:
“This face seats five!”
Sometime around 1991, being a pretentious preppy douchebag was no longer considered “cool” and was replaced by being a pretentious flannel-wearing slacker douchebag.
Not that you or your friends are douchebags! That was just the style back then.
So, he’s calling me a pervert, is he? I’m officially offended!
(Not really.)
Ah, I had forgotten. Mare Winningham, killed by a terminal case of hiccups.
(Grey’s Anatomy is possibly more crappy, if only by volume, than St. Elmo’s Fire.)
I was hoping I wasn’t alone in liking this film.
The whole f’king brat pack ruined the 1980s like piss in a pool. This movie was just one of many…it was a movement in Hollywood supporting the cause: Morons with no Morales.
They might not have had any Morales, but they did have an Estevez.
Reviving this old thread because I suffered through about a third of this movie tonight (free on demand, bored, and had fond memories of enjoying it back in the mid-80’s… what the fuck was I thinking?!) …fell asleep, and woke up to the cabin scene when freaky stalker Emilio confronts the incredibly inane Andie MacDowell. Yawn. Then a vision appears before me… a ruggedly handsome, uh, Aidan Quinn?
I googled every combination I could think of to try to determine if I’m right (feeling vaguely stalkerish myself) but that role appears to have been uncredited.
And the Google search led me to this old thread. So, does anyone know if that luscious hunk of a dreamboat cabin-dwelling skin-tight 80’s jeans wearing lumberjack is Aidan Quinn?
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this movie, but I seem to remember him looking more like Father Damien from the Exorcist than Aiden Quinn. At any rate, I think it’s James Carrington credited in the movie as “Guy.”
I always think of the woman in the Bowling for Soup song:
Gonorrhea?
I keed!
I saw this thread and thought to myself, “Yeah, that movie really did suck.” Then I saw the thread was by me - at least I’m consistent! 
In this movie’s defense, my former sister-in-law and her insufferable friends are just like the douchebags in St. Elmo’s Fire!
Precisely. A huge PoS.
I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Educating Rita.