“John wanted people to take teens seriously, and people did.” Wonderful piece. Belated thanks, Molly (and John); in their flawed way, those movies “saved” me too.https://twitter.com/mollyringwald/status/982300967084277761 …
The Breakfast Club & St. Elmo’s Fire were my absolute favorite complex teen movies of the mid-80, for overlapping reasons. But we had a large selection that tried to extract art & empathy from the commercial formula, to varying extents.