St. Elmo's Fireactors look back at movie that defined a generation
A version of this story originally appears in Entertainment Weekly’s Untold Stories issue, on stands now. The reviews were atrocious. JOEL SCHUMACHER[co-writer/director]: I lived in Georgetown during the period of Reaganomics. Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Mare Winningham, Rob Lowe, and Andrew McCarthy in ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’.Credit: Getty Every studio turned down the spec script. He then went off and madeHoward the Duck. I had no interest in that....