BRATS

BRATS is a documentary built around Andrew McCarthy's own account of coming up in 1980s Hollywood. He was one of a group of young actors who seemed poised for major careers after a run of successful films aimed at teenagers. That changed when a 1985 New York magazine cover story labelled the group the Brat Pack, a name that stuck and that, by McCarthy's reckoning, took control of their careers out of their hands. Nearly four decades on, he seeks out the people he worked alongside to talk over what that period meant and how they are regarded now.

The film comes from McCarthy's 2021 memoir and marks his first time directing a feature. He appears on camera too, with Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe and Timothy Hutton among those taking part. It runs 92 minutes and is a Canadian-American co-production for NEON, ABC News Studios and Network Entertainment, produced by Derik Murray and Adrian Buitenhuis.

Audience response has been moderate. On IMDb it holds 6.5 out of 10 from roughly 7,400 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.1 out of 10 from 59 votes. That gap in vote counts suggests a modest theatrical or streaming audience on the whole, with the strongest engagement coming from viewers already familiar with the films and personalities involved.