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‘Brats’ Review: Hulu’s Brat Pack Doc Doubles as a Group Therapy Session
In Hulu's 'Brats,' Andrew McCarthy directs a nostalgic documentary about the 1980s actors including interviews with Demi Moore and Rob Lowe.
He continues that journey with “ Brats,” a kind of feature-length group-therapy session in which he sits down with Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe and others in order to finally come to terms with what it means (and meant) to be a member of that sometimes-disreputable club. Estevez (the original subject of the article and in many ways the group’s nucleus) is in agreement with McCarthy that the whole saga was mean-spirited and harmful, Moore is so insightful that one wonders whether she might be leading a double life as a therapist and Lowe, seemingly true to form, is able to focus on the silver lining and be grateful to have been part of a watershed moment in Hollywood that changed the industry and is still being discussed today. There’s a woe-is-me quality to the proceedings that some viewers will likely have trouble getting past, particularly on a visual level: McCarthy, still retaining his boyish good looks at 61, spends much of the film either in a rented convertible or the luxe abodes of his fellow Brat Packers as they discuss the deleterious effects of the article and its fallout.
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