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Clay, an eighteen-year-old freshman, comes back from his first term at a college in New Hampshire to spend his Christmas vacation with his broken-up wealthy family in Los Angeles. His former girlfriend, Blair, is now involved with his ex-best-friend, Julian. She warns Clay that Julian needs help: he is using a lot of cocaine and has huge debts. What follows is a look at the youth culture of wealthy post adolescents in Beverly Hills with a strong anti-drug message. Apart from the setting and the names, the film has very little to do with Bret Easton Ellis's book by the same title on which it was based.
De nihilistische belevenissen van enkele rijkeluiskindjes in Beverly Hills naar het boek van Bret Easton Ellis. Clay komt terug in zijn woonplaats na een tijdje gestudeerd te hebben. Hij vindt het leventje daar maar niks en tracht zijn oude liefde Blair te overtuigen dat dit leven met nutteloze sex en drugs niet voor eeuwig is. Hun vriend en party-koning Julian raakt echter zwaar verslaafd en krijgt problemen met zijn dealer.
Friendship is central to these characters as they try to find their way in the fast lane on the fastest track of all - the disengaged, super affluent, young Beverly Hills lifestyle. Less Than Zero is based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name and stars Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, Robert Downey Jr., and Jami Gertz.
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Considering the horrors that some authors get put through with film adaptations of their work, one time literary enfant terrible Bret Easton Ellis has been fairly lucky. " Less Than Zero " is fairly decent, while Mary Harron turned out a terrific adaptation of " American Psycho ," and even " The Rules of Attraction " has its moments, despite the source material not being very good--leaving Gregor Jordan 's disastrous " The Informers ," the film on which the writer made his screenwriting debut, as the only out-and-out failure. But it hasn't kept Ellis from his copy of Final Draft: he was hired in 2009 to write "The…
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