Backstreet Boys’ ‘Everybody’ video, the film laid on the dry ice and candelabras as heavily as possible, somehow turning camp Broadway horror into a 2004 Oscar favourite.Key moment: Gerard Butler serenading Emmy Rossum on a haunted gondola, floating on a river of ’80s music video madness.Schumacher’s first big film caught the tide at exactly the right moment.
Somewhere before Friends made 20-somethings feel OK about not having ‘adulting’ figured out, the Brat Pack did it first with St.
Elmo’s Fire – a slow-burning coming-of-age drama and a who’s who of the rising stars of 1985. It might be a wee bit overwrought (one review brutally called it “a TV sitcom without jokes”), but it stands as a well-dressed, blow-dried time capsule of an era and.
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