<Li> Joyce Van Patten as Mrs. Beamish </Li> <Li> Jenny Wright as Felicia </Li> <P> According to Schumacher, "a lot of people turned down the script...the head of (one) major studio called its seven - member cast "the most loathsome humans he had ever read on the page ." The producers interviewed "hundreds of people" for the cast, including Anthony Edwards and Lea Thompson . According to Lauren Shuler Donner, she found Estevez, Nelson, and Sheedy through recommendations from John Hughes, who had cast them in The Breakfast Club; Schumacher said he had to "push hard" to get the studio to agree to cast the three . Demi Moore had to go to rehab before shooting . </P> <P> The private Jesuit - affiliated Georgetown University would not permit filming on campus, with their administrators citing questionable content such as premarital sex . As a result, the university seen on film is the public University of Maryland located 10 miles away in College Park, Maryland . </P>

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