St. Elmo's Fire

    • Tagline: "The passion burns deep"
    • Director: Joel Schumacher
    • Written by Joel Schumacher & Carl Kurlander
    • Release Date: June 28, 1985
    • Run Time: 110 min
    • Georgetown University refused to allow filming on campus; University of Maryland buildings were used instead
    • St. Elmo’s Bar in the film is actually the popular Georgetown night spot known as The Tombs
    • St. Elmo’s Fire is actually an electrical phenomenon, a visible discharge on pointed object (a ship’s mast, a church steeple, a plane’s wing) during a thunderstorm
  • St. Elmo's Fire is a 1985 coming-of-age drama film about seven friends struggling to adjust to adulthood in the months after graduating from Georgetown University. The Joel Schumacher directed film boasted an ensemble cast of soon-to-be stars, including members of what would eventually become known as the Brat Pack. The film's themes of lost innocence and the struggle for personal independence helped it resonate with a generation of movie-goers.
  • Cast

  • On Twitter Powered by Twitter

About this page

  • Page Views
    0
What is this?
No one is currently managing this page.

If you would like to apply
to be the manager of this page, please request below.

What is this?
This page currently has no vertical manager.