Don’t you forget about her. “Brat Pack” member Andrew McCarthy, 61, has cleared up why Molly Ringwald is missing from his documentary “Brats,” out Thursday on Hulu. “She said she’d think about it and that was really the end of It,” he told Us Weekly.
“Brats” is about the famous group of ‘80s stars, their memories about their heyday, and their gripes with that moniker. The circle of stars associated with the label are Emilio Estevez, Ringwald, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Cryer and McCarthy. (Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr.
and Matt Dillon are sometimes also mentioned in association with the Brat Pack, but it’s disputed whether the label includes them, as the movie notes). The movies include “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty In Pink” “Sixteen Candles,” and “St. Emo’s Fire,” among others.
Directed by and starring McCarthy, the documentary follows McCarthy as he seeks out his former peers – some of whom he hasn’t seen in several decades, like Estevez – and has honest conversations with them. Rob Lowe, Estevez, Sheedy and Moore all open up onscreen. But despite being a central figure in the Brat Pack, with her signature short red coif, Ringwald is conspicuously absent, along with Nelson.
McCarthy told the outlet that she has “a lot to say already in the movie,” via archival footage from her own interviews, but admitted that it “would’ve been great” to speak with her. “She’s so articulate an.