Andrew McCarthy to Reunite with Brat Packers Demi Moore, Rob Lowe and More for Hulu Documentary Brats

A pack of brats is returning to the big screen, more than 40 years after a group of young actors sat at the top of the Hollywood totem pole.

Andrew McCarthy has gathered some of his former collaborators for a new documentary that will be shown on Hulu later this year, called bratshe announced in a post on Instagram.

The documentary will see McCarthy, 61, travel across the country to reunite with some of his former Brat Pack members, including Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, according to Deadline.

Among his other interviews are Breakfast Club students Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez, Pretty in Pink’with Jon Cryer, Back to future star Lea Thompson and Ordinary peopleis Timothy Hutton. McCarthy also spoke with several key members of the production, including directors, casting directors, writers and producers,” according to the documentary’s description.

In his Instagram post, McCarthy said it was “an amazing experience to be reunited with so much of the old team.”

The cast of ‘St. Elm’s fire.

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brats will also see McCarthy — who became an acclaimed travel writer and tried his hand at television directing after being a member of the Brat Pack — sitting down with David Blum, New York Magazine writer who gave the nickname to the group in 1985.

He previously told PEOPLE that he “wasn’t even there” when Blum spent the night with some of the cast and coined the phrase. “It was like boom, there it is. And I recoiled from it. The term was uttered in a very pejorative way. And the last thing you want in Hollywood is to be boxed in,” he said.

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Actors Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy and Judd Nelson on the set of the Columbia Pictures film “St. Elmo’s Fire” in 1985.

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In a statement about the documentary, McCarthy said: “The Brat Pack has cast a long shadow over my life and career. After all these years, I was curious to see how it affected my fellow Brat Pack members. What I discovered was surprising—and liberating.”

The film will explore “how the label sparked outrage and affected each of them [the actors]personally and professionally,” according to Deadline.

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Andrew McCarthy and Emilio Estevez on the set of Columbia Pictures’ “St. Elmo’s Fire” in 1985.

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The upcoming Hulu documentary isn’t the first time McCarthy — who made his big screen debut in 1985 St. Elmo’s fire — delved into the history of the famous acting group.

He published a memoir, Brother: A story from the 80s2021, which is described as a “revealing look at growing up in a whirlwind, dealing with conflicting ambitions, innocence, addiction and masculinity,” according to the book description.

“I carried a pack of brats with me all these years,” McCarthy told PEOPLE in a statement ahead of the memoir’s release. “I thought it was time to take a good look under that rock. What I found surprised me.”

The cast of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’, directed by Joel Schumacher, 1985. Left to right: Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Mare Winningham, Judd Nelson and Andrew McCarthy.

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He also admitted that despite some struggles — “I couldn’t watch the movies I was in for years,” he told PEOPLE last year — “acting saved my life in a lot of ways when I was 15.”

“I discovered acting in a high school play and that was it. And the course of my life was set and that saved me,” McCarthy said.

brats will be broadcast sometime in 2024.

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