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Less Than Zero | Year: 1987 Classification: Drama Actors/Actresses: - Robert Downey Jr - Brad Pitt - James Spader - Andrew Mccarthy - Jami Gertz Poor adaptation of a so-so book What made Bret Easton Ellis's "Less Than Zero" an interesting, if less than compelling, read, was its portrayal of the anomie and emptiness of the Brat Pack of southern California -- rich, spoiled kids with too much money and nothing to do for it. Those young people, and their parents as well, didn't seem to care about anything but their next party or their next affair. But the film adaptation goes overboard in the opposite direction, trying to make Clay and his sometime girlfriend, Blair, look like paragons of caring in a non-caring world. As if the film directors realized that Clay in the book was too empty a personality to hold a movie together, they switched the focus to Julian, a peripheral player in the book; we're supposed to feel angst at watching him self-destruct through his addiction to drugs. Clay and Blair come across as even less interesting in the movie than they do in the book. Except for two excellent performances by Robert Downey as Julian and James Spader as a drug dealer who keeps Julian hooked, the actors are uninspired and the film script can only be described as banal. There should have been a preface tacked onto the beginning of the movie: Any resemblance between this film and the book it is based on is purely coincidental. Re: Downeys finest hour Two words apply to this movie: Robert Downey. He gives an incredible performance as Julian a drug addicted pal of two old high school friends. Its astonishing to me that he wasnt at least nominated for an Academy Award. Downeys performance is beyond convincing, it will literally send chills down your spine. See it for Robert Downey, it is truly his finest hour. To live and die in LA Ok, so it might be someone else's film title, but this is one of the essential 80s brat flicks and concerns the said heading in every aspect. Let's get the rubbish out of the way. The plot is twiddled with until it barely resembles the book. A lot of Ellis' humour gets lost in translation. Blair is a brunette unlike her published blonde doppelganger. Hmmm. Buy Less Than Zero at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Less Than Zero Search with the Priority Search Engine on Less Than Zero This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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