The Rules of Attraction (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 5, 2011
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Van Der Beek & Jessica Biel | |
Performer: | Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Clifton Collins, Jr., Kip Pardue, Eric Stoltz & Fred Savage | |
Directed by | Roger Avary | |
Screenwriting by | Roger Avary | |
Original story by | Bret Easton Ellis | |
Produced by | Greg Shapiro | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Brinkmann | |
Executive Production by | Roger Avary, Marc Butan, James Deutch, Samuel Hadida, Marsha Oglesby, Tom Ortonberg, Michael Paseornek & Jeremiah Samuels |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Ellis' satire, filtered through Avary's harsh lens, is hard to stomach, harder to ignore.
Rolling Stone
A disagreeable and unrewarding expose of what spoilt college students get up to in expensive New England colleges.
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Guardian
Actually I quite enjoyed the movie--but how do I get rid of this awful discharge?
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Chicago Reader
Rating: B --
When a movie is described by some critics as morally repellent and by others as innovative and brilliant, it means at the very least that it's controversial and touching a nerve in the collective consciousness.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...THE RULES OF ATTRACTION gleefully shakes up chronological order and makes copious use of such techniques as split screen and slow motion....Technically impressive...
Sight and Sound
...Roger Avary's movie has a refreshingly acerbic edge; the filmmaking is stylish, and the cast is alluring...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Rating: 2/5 --
Maybe it's writer/director Roger Avary's approach. He has taken the source material too seriously, and presented it almost at face value.
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Film Threat
Product Description:
THE RULES OF ATTRACTION, based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, stars James Van Der Beek (DAWSON'S CREEK) as Sean Bateman, campus drug-dealer and 24-hour-a-day reveler at affluent Camden College. A senior at the New England school, Sean is caught up in a nihilistic love triangle. He has a crush on Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon), an arty virgin who is saving herself for a vapid, vacationing ex-boyfriend, while Paul (Ian Somerhalder), a beautiful bisexual, has a crush on Sean. Every night is a party at Camden, where students celebrate with a "Dress to Get Screwed" theme and teachers appear more often on the dance floor than in the classroom. Director Roger Avary conveys the individual angst of the three lovelorn main characters in a series of vignettes, using their different perspectives to weave together a complex tale of misunderstanding, drug binges, alienated sex and violence, and above all, extreme loneliness. Equal parts fantasy and reality, THE RULES OF ATTRACTION, like other Ellis adaptations LESS THAN ZERO and AMERICAN PSYCHO, is a deeply observant, daring antiestablishment film. Camden College and its characters resonate with the very real despair and rebellion of many generations of university students.
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- Sales Rank: 78,711
- UPC: 031398133605
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