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Plot Summary for St.
Elmo's Fire (1985)
Brat Pack film about the ups and downs of life for a group of young friends.
Billy can't hold down a job. Wendy's rich parents want her to be a clone of her sister (married, running family
business franchise), she prefers the company of Billy. Billy wants to get back together with his wife and baby.
Kirby has a crush on an old school date (Dale). Jules goes from one crisis to another. Alex wants to marry Leslie
but he's unfaithful, Alex also has to contend with Leslie's other admirer; Kevin. Jules incorrectly thinks Kevin
is gay. A nice simple plot.
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Quotes from St. Elmo's Fire:
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Wendy
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We're really worried about this affair with your boss. |
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Jules
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I don't know why you're both so worried... So, I bop him for a couple of
years, get his job when he gets his hands caught in the vault, do a black mink ad, retire in utter disgrace, then
write a best seller and be a talk show host on my own
talk show... |
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Alec
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You're being arrested for drunk driving. |
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Billy
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Drunk definitely, I don't know if you could call it driving. |
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Alec
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The wet look is in, asshole. |
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Billy
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That's Mr. Asshole to you. |
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Jules
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Don't you enjoy anything anymore, like girls---? |
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Kevin
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I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America
feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that? |
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Kevin
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How come you never ask me if I want a date? |
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Hooker
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I thought you were gay! |
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Billy
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Jules, y'know, honey... this isn't real. You know what it is? It's St. Elmo's
Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journies by
it, but the joke was on them...there was no fire. There was't even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up
because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you're making up all of
this. We're all going through this. It's our time at the edge. |
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Leslie
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Men. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em. |
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Alec
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You walked out on this relationship. |
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Leslie
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I didn't walk out. You walked out. |
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Alec
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You fucked Kevin! |
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Leslie
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You fucked many! |
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Alec
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Nameless, faceless many. |
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Leslie
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Thank you. I feel much better now. |
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Dale
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Kirby! How are you? |
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Kirby
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I'm obsessed thank you very much. |
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Kirby
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Fluff and fold, buddy. Soon as I make it really big, I'm going fluff and
fold. |
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Wendy
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I thought we'd be friends forever. |
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Kevin
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Yeah, well, forever got a lot shorter all of a sudden. |
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Kirby
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It's true love, my friend. |
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Kevin
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Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer
types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the
illusionary need for divorce lawyers. |
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Kevin
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Marriage is a concept invented by people who were lucky to make it to 20
without being eaten by dinosaurs. Marriage is extinct. |
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Alec
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Dinosaurs are extinct. Marriage is still around. |
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Kevin
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You know there are more people in law school right now than there are lawyers
on the entire planet? Think about that. |
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Kirby
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You are just pissed off and bitter because you have not had sex in... how
long? What is it... a year... maybe two? Refresh my memory please, Kevin. Haven't you heard of the sexual revolution? |
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Kevin
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Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer.
Alimony... palimony... it's all financial. Love is an illusion. |
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Kirby
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It's the only illusion that counts, my friend. |
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Kevin
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Says who? |
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Kirby
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Anyone who's been in love. |
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Kevin
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Love sucks. |
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Kirby
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So does your attitude. |
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Kirby
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There are several quintessential moments in a man's life: losing his virginity,
getting married, becoming a father, and having the right girl smile at you. |
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Wendy
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No diet works. The only way to lose weight in the thighs is amputation. |
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Jules
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I thought you were taking steps to phase out everything that wasn't working
in your life. |
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Wendy
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That doesn't leave much. |
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