Rules Of Attraction (DVD)

Description: Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 2002 / Director: Roger Avary / Actors: James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon ... / ... more

Rules Of Attraction (DVD) ... DVD released 04 July, 2005 at Icon Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / Based on Bret Easton Ellis's often-overlooked second novel, The Rules of Attraction works better as a film than the disastrous Less Than Zero, though not as well as the canny American Psycho. Writer-director Roger Avary--who lets slip a nasty Quentin Tarantino reference that feels like sour grapes--can't quite decide whether to ditch the novel's extremely 1980s cultural references and make a contemporary-set picture or to evoke the period in which the book was written. Set on a small New England campus, the film offers a love triangle between "emotional vampire" Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), skateboarding "innocent" Lauren Hynde (Shannon Sossamyn) and gay libertine Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder) that gets complicated by passing characters. While not as hung up on time as Memento or Irreversible, the film does play its tricks, opening at an "end of the world party" to show its three leads at simultaneous low points, reversing to take stabs at each of them, then hopping back and forth in time as different narrators take over, with time-outs for a fast-forward tour of Europe by a minor character and a drug-dealing subplot to keep Avary's crime credentials in order. All in all it's a satirical piece that is removed from reality, always striking, sometimes funny or horrifying, but ultimately hard to connect with. --Kim Newman

Newest Review: ... Pardue), a drama major who's off touring Europe. Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder), Lauren's ex, is gay and is also interested in ... more

... Sean at a noisy party, having mistaken the request for a case of beer as 'Quesadilla' believing Sean has asked him out for Mexican food. This is a drug and booze related update on many teen dramas, the kids can't quite put into words their feelings and the sense of isolation and therefore the desire to hurt others is profound. This is a slice of High School College life from the other side of the coin to High School Musical. The Cast James Van Der Beek ... Sean Bateman Shannyn Sossamon ... Lauren Hynde Je...more

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	Rules Of Attraction [DVD] [2003] Based on Bret Easton Ellis's often - overlooked second novel, The ... Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45	£ 5.95

Rules Of Attraction [DVD] [2003]
Based on Bret Easton Ellis's often - overlooked second novel, The ...

Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45

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Rules Of Attraction (DVD): Slightly contrived feeling non-sequel to American Psycho (540 words)
by - written on 23/08/09 (Very useful, 33 readings)
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The film is based on a Bret Easton-Ellis film and is billed as an unrelated sequel to American Psycho. The film centres on Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), brother of Patrick, a drug-dealing, sex crazed student at Camden College who owes a lot of money to a coke-crazed local (Clifton Collins Jr.). Sean's been receiving anonymous notes from a secret admirer who he suspects is Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), a skateboarding girl who is still very innocent and has not given into the debauchery around her. To Sean, Lauren represents something pure and innocent and something for him to manipulate and destroy. Lauren does like Sean but is ... Read the complete review

Life in the fast lane has never felt so slow... (1161 words)
by - written on 03/04/07 (Very useful, 153 readings)
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Not to be confused with "Rules of Engagement" (2000 war drama with Samuel L. Jackson) or "Laws of Attraction" (2004 rom-com with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore) this 2002 film is kind of a teen movie for grown ups, directed by Roger Avary, the guy who wrote one of the stories for Pulp Fiction. It's adapted from the novel by Brett Easton Ellis - yes, that American Psycho chap - and in fact the two films have even more of a connection that just the author… I'll leave you guessing… But not for long. The Rules of Attraction tells the story of Sean Bateman - recognise the name? He's the younger brother of Patrick Bateman, played by Christian ... Read the complete review

Rules Of Attraction (DVD): Roger Avary attempts to tackle Bret Eaton Ellis' college sat ... (231 words)
by - written on 02/04/05 (Useful, 41 readings)
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The only "rules" in Roger Avary's latest are in the second word of the titles. Otherwise, the man who made "Killing Zoe" and who came up with the "gold watch story" in "Pulp Fiction" has thrown the guidebook into the nearest bin and set fire to it. Eschewing straight narrative for a writhing mass of lust, lethargy, liars and loatharios, "Attraction"'s trick-laden tale charts a year at swanky New England college Camden. It's all hingged around brave, raw performances from the leads: James Van Der Beek neatly skewering "Dawson's Creek"-tinted perceptions as the cold-hearted Sean Bateman; ... Read the complete review

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