"We all sort of fell under this banner," Ringwald said of the 'Brat Pack' moniker Molly Ringwald says that the "Brat Pack" — the term coined by journalist David Blum to describe the actors who appeared in a string of films like The Breakfast Club (1985),

NME reports that the now-veteran actor called the Brat Pack term “a pejorative,” one that proved hard for those actors to escape over the years since New York Magazine writer David Blum coined it for a 1985 feature.

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