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DVD : Less Than Zero
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Less Than Zero starring: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr., James Spader, Tony Bill directed by: Marek Kanievska List Price: $9.98 CD-Charts Price: $7.99 You Save: $1.99 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: MCCARTHY,ANDREW EAN: 0024543025177 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 05, 2002 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: November 06, 1987 Sales Rank: 3305 MPN: FOXD2002517D Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Description: Returning home from college for Christmas vacation, Clay (Andrew McCarthy) is eager to resume his long-time romantic relationship with Blair (Jami Gertz) and his old friendship with the irresponsible Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.). But he finds the two have started a relationship of their own and developed a fondness for clubs, wild parties and endless amounts of cocaine. Clay's determination and love for Blair enables him to win her back, but Julian is a different story. Increasingly hopeless, addicted and deeply in debt to his dealer (James Spader), he puts Clay and Blair through the ultimate test of friendship, loyalty and love. Amazon.com: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Great title, Great movie.Less Than Zero I've heard of this movie for years & I finally got it! It's a sad & intense tale of someone who "marches to the beat of their own drum" (while strung out on drugs & alcohol) without checking his bearings or vision with others (a.k.a. self-deluded) & ultimately becomes the cause of his own demise. There are enabling individuals who help him on his way too. Strongly reminds me of the "Very Draining People" chapter in the book, "Ordering Your Private World". Rating:  - Good for Downey jr FansGreat movie for any fans of Downey Jr. You can see his desperation and the lost hope of his friends and family. Awesome performance. Rating:  - Seems Like a Flashy Version of an Afterschool Special about Drug Abuse."Less Than Zero" must be in the running for the movie that least resembles its source material, in this case Bret Easton Ellis' 1985 novel of the same name. In this 1987 film, Clay (Andrew McCarthy) returns to his native Los Angeles for Christmas break his freshman year of college. He hopes to rekindle his relationship with girlfriend Blaire (Jami Gertz), who had taken up with his best friend Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.) in Clay's absence. He's disappointed to find Blaire strung out on cocaine and annoyed by her insistence that Julian is in some kind of trouble and needs his help. Julian's business failures have left him deep in debt to a drug dealer (James Spader) and wasted all the time. There probably isn't much point in comparing ... Read More: Rating: - Downey's performance MAKES 'Less Than Zero' into something compelling and watchable.It is not quite the compliment it may sound to say that Robert Downey Jr. steals every scene in LESS THAN ZERO (even the ones he's not in). His co-stars in this botched film version of the infamous Bret Easton Ellis novel are Andrew McCarthy and Jami Gertz, both of whom so completely embody their characters' blankness that they leave two voids at the center of the story. Downey could mistakenly be judged to have walked off with the acting honors by default, the easiest victory since Theresa Russell (in a very similar role) wrested THE RAZOR'S EDGE away from Bill Murray and Catherine Hicks. This, however, would be to severely underrate Downey's careful recreation of a life out of control. An accident waiting to happen, Downey's Julian roars with the ... Read More: Rating:  - This movie is far less than it should have been...If I had never read Bret Easton Ellis' masterful novel from which this movie was spawned I may have actually enjoyed it for what it was, not what it was attempting to be. The fact that `Less than Zero' happens to be one of my all time favorite novels made me so excited to dig up this film and give it a watch. What I experienced though was pure shock, not in how good it was but in how unfaithful it was to the novel that inspired it. The film is cleaned up and reformatted to such a degree that you lose the entire feeling and meaning behind the novel. They didn't just alter an ending or add a subplot but they drastically changed the characters, their actions, their problems, their motives, their home life, their relationships. Nothing is the same; ... Read More: |
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