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| ACTORS: | Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr. |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Marek Kanievska |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 06 November, 1987 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Twentieth Century Fox Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543025177 |
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Customer Reviews of Less Than Zero
sub zero: the 80's were awesome If you were born after 1980 don't bother. Otherwise incase you forgot, this was a great GREAT movie epitomizing the angst that pervaded through our youth with the 'new' drug-generation; GenX. <
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>It was just a great movie about the lows that people will go to for drugs, a short but invested love interest, AND of course tragedy. Less Than Zero, No-Man's Land, The Rachel Papers, and Dream a Little Dream are all the 80's movies I waited for, and here they all are, Finally!
Spoiled Rich Kids Who Party Too Much!!!
In this movie Robert Downey Jnr. plays Julian , a drug addicted kid from the rich side of town. Gee. That much have sure been one heck of a stretch for Robert to play this role!!!He betrays his best friend Clay by having sex with Clay's girlfriend played by Jamie Gertz who is a model although I always thought that succesfull models had to be taller than her. Anyway Julian keeps on snorting and drinking and doing so called "recreational drugs" although it is not made clear in this movie why exactly he is doing this. Perhaps he is trying to escape his overprivelidged wealthy upbringing.Poor guy.The best thing about this movie is the Soundtrack which features the Bangles playing a rendition of "A Hazy Shade Of Winter" I give this movie 5 stars because I have always liked that song.
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I consider this film on par with "Rebel Without a Cause," "To Live" by Yimou Zhang and "Terminator 2 Judgment Day," and would rate it higher than "Requiem for a Dream," "GATTACA," and "Garden State."
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>The sex scenes, albeit without nudity, are intense.
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>Some of the scenes of drug use are irrelevant to the story. Their inclusion may leave the impression that the film is tempting the audience, although the opposite is intended.
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>How the characters think and feel is too easily interpretable through facial expressions and dialogues, compared to how actual people think and feel.
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>On the other hand, the character Julian is convincing; so are those of Clay and Blair, especially when Clay checks with his hand or pulse on Julian's neck but Blair places her head on Julian's chest.
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>The literary devices, such as Clay leaving Julian in a playground, allusions to the Bible, the black and red color scheme of the drug dealer in contrast with white and red associated with Christmas, do not appear heavy handed.
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>The portrayal of relationship is often subtle and effective. I remember how Blair says "miss you" after Clay has left her room for a while, the tension between the ex wife and her successor at the fancy Christmas dinner party, the awkwardness of Julian's uncle giving into -- maybe giving up on -- Julian, how Julian tried to cope with his mother's death, how his father responded.
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>The music is apt and admirable. I like the Bangles's rendition of "A Hazy Shade of Winter," "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix, Roy Orbison's "Life Fades Away," and Julian singing "Silent Night," interjected by Blair's teasing remark.
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>The sequence on Julian's death shows off Southern California, its chaparral and semiarid landscape, the open sky, the rural highway, the sun setting behind a field of wind turbines.