St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
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Wikidata Q1406821, film, IMDb tt0090060, TMDB 11557: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
The Rewatchables
- Bill Simmons: 1 line in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan
- Kyle Brandt: 1 line in ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
- Unattributed: 2 lines, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Demi Moore: 1 line what-if ×1
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what-if (what-if):
Demi Moore → St. Elmo's Fire.
Demi Moore as Jules in St. Elmo's Fire shows how she might have played Tess, raspy and puffy from the night before.
“Demi Moore, if she's Jules and St. Elmo's Fire.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:29:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (shared location):
Ferris Bueller's Day Off → St. Elmo's Fire.
Same restaurant where Kirby (Estevez) waits for Andie McDowell.
“same restaurant at St. Elmo's Fire, where Kirby played by Abilo Estevez, waits for Andy McDowell”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
Rob Lowe: 1 line career ×1
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career (career):
Rob Lowe → St. Elmo's Fire.
Lowe was a huge 80s star: St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night, then reinvented via SNL and Wayne's World.
“St. Elmo's fires probably.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Weird Science: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
Weird Science → St. Elmo's Fire.
St. Elmo's Fire has a title song but does not work the plot in.
“But it doesn't really work the plot into it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:11:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt, first at 1:11:40, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan, first at 1:09:23, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson, first at 1:29:07, 3 times
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:58:36, 1 time
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan, first at 1:11:56, 2 times
- passing in The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion, first at 1:02:31, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
career (1)
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career (career):
Rob Lowe → St. Elmo's Fire.
Lowe was a huge 80s star: St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night, then reinvented via SNL and Wayne's World.
“St. Elmo's fires probably.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (1)
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contrast (contrast):
Weird Science → St. Elmo's Fire.
St. Elmo's Fire has a title song but does not work the plot in.
“But it doesn't really work the plot into it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:11:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (1)
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theme (shared location):
Ferris Bueller's Day Off → St. Elmo's Fire.
Same restaurant where Kirby (Estevez) waits for Andie McDowell.
“same restaurant at St. Elmo's Fire, where Kirby played by Abilo Estevez, waits for Andy McDowell”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (1)
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what-if (what-if):
Demi Moore → St. Elmo's Fire.
Demi Moore as Jules in St. Elmo's Fire shows how she might have played Tess, raspy and puffy from the night before.
“Demi Moore, if she's Jules and St. Elmo's Fire.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:29:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Rob Lowe: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey)
- Demi Moore: actor (Jules) (The Rewatchables, ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson)
- Emilio Estevez: actor (Kirby) (The Rewatchables, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
- Stephen Burum: cinematographer (named among his De Palma-era work) (The Rewatchables, 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion)