why different actors reacted to it in different ways. McCarthy had spent many years resenting the label, believing that it limited the way Hollywood viewed him. Returning to it decades later provided an opportunity to examine rather than simply avoid that history.
The documentary also complicated the common assumption that the “Brat Pack” was a close and organized group. McCarthy has emphasized that the actors did not exist as a formal club in the way popular culture later imagined. They appeared in overlapping films, moved within the same industry, and
