McCarthy’s documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on Friday, June 7
The Brat Pack got back together for one night only in New York City to support Andrew McCarthy at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Stars of iconic films of the 1980s like St. Elmo’s Fire, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and About Last Night attended the world premiere of McCarthy’s documentary BRATS, which debuted at the OKX Theater at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City on Friday, June 7, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer and Howie Deutch were just a few of the celebrities present to support McCarthy, 61, at the premiere of the film, which McCarthy wrote and directed about the golden age of the Brat Pack.
McCarthy, Sheedy, Moore and Cryer all smiled and posed together on the red carpet at the event.
The doc features McCarthy interviewing friends and former costars like Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore and other celebrities who starred in hit ’80s films that were so popular among a certain age group that a New York Magazine article dubbed them “The Brat Pack” in a June 1985 article.
It was intended to be a play on words by writer David Blum, inspired by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.’s Rat Pack, from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
In the trailer for BRATS, McCarthy described the nickname as a “brand” that was automatically stamped on actors’ careers from that point forward, whether they liked it or not.
“It had professional ramifications,” McCarthy told PEOPLE about the cheeky nickname in an interview ahead of the film’s premiere. “The public embraced us, but the business reacted to it in a negative way.”
The Weekend At Bernie’s star decided to make a movie discussing what life was like for fellow Brat Pack members as someone who lived it with them.
In the case of Estevez, 62, unpacking the experience with a peer is what made him decide to talk about life in The Brat Pack at all.
“I turned everything down,” he told McCarthy in the trailer.
When pushed to explain why he decided to participate in the documentary, he said he did it because McCarthy called him. “It was time that we clear the air on a couple of things,” the Mighty Ducks star added.
“Being in The Brat Pack not only changed all of our lives, it changed what entertainment is,” Lowe, 60, told McCarthy in the film, before backtracking a bit. “I’m not going to say we were The Beatles or anything, but…”
