Less Than Zero (1987) USA
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Director:Marek Kanievska
Studio:20th Century Fox
Producer:Jordan Kerner, Jon Avnet, Marvin Worth
Writer:Bret Easton Ellis, Harley Peyton
Rating:3.5
Rated:R
Date Added:2006-03-27
ASIN:B00005V9IH
UPC:0024543025177
Price:$9.98
Genre:Downey Jr., Robert
Release:2002-05-03
IMDb:0093407
Duration:98
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:Dolby
Languages:English, Spanish
Marek Kanievska  ...  (Director)
Bret Easton Ellis, Harley Peyton  ...  (Writer)
 
Andrew McCarthy  ...  Clay Easton
Jami Gertz  ...  Blair
Robert Downey Jr.  ...  Julian Wells
James Spader  ...  Rip
Tony Bill  ...  Bradford Easton
Nicholas Pryor  ...  Benjamin Wells
Donna Mitchell  ...  Elaine Easton
Michael Bowen  ...  Bill
Sarah Buxton  ...  Markie
Lisanne Falk  ...  Patti
Michael Greene  ...  Robert Wells
Neith Hunter  ...  Alana
Afton Smith  ...  Kim
Brian Wimmer  ...  Trent
Kelly Wolf  ...  Lile
Comments: It only looks like the good life.

Summary: Dreary, pointless late-'80s novel by literary poseur Bret Easton Ellis focused on listless, shiftless, drug-sniffing, sex-swapping, dead-end California teens with too much money and time on their hands. Which just about sums up this movie, though it's not nearly as interesting as that. This is mostly due to the ridiculously cleaned-up script and lifeless direction, which whitewashes the baser depravity and replaces it with perversion-lite and fashion shows. It doesn't help that director Marek Kanievska is saddled with Brat Pack lesser (make that least) lights Andrew McCarthy and Jami Gertz. The only things that lift this film above the muck are the performances by James Spader as a particularly heinous drug dealer and Robert Downey Jr. as a rich-kid addict with no self-control. --Marshall Fine