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DVD Less Than Zero
Dreary, pointless late-'80s novel by literary poseur Bret Easton Ellis focused on listless, shiftless, drug-sniffing, sex-swapping, dead-end California teens with too much money and time on their hands. Which just about sums up this movie, though it's not nearly as interesting as that. This is mostly due to the ridiculously cleaned-up script and lifeless direction, which whitewashes the baser depravity and replaces it with perversion-lite and fashion shows. It doesn't help that director Marek Kanievska is saddled with Brat Pack lesser (make that least) lights Andrew McCarthy and Jami Gertz. The only things that lift this film above the muck are the performances by James Spader as a particularly heinous drug dealer and Robert Downey Jr. as a rich-kid addict with no self-control. --Marshall Fine
I was thinking about developing a cocaine habit because models and people like that make it look like a lot of fun. I'm supermodel hot, but right now I just have an occasional beer. My friend Jeffnine let me borrow his copy of less than zero because he said Andrew MCCarthyee was better in this than he was in pretty in pink. I did't believe this was possible so I watched it. Man, being on drugs looks fun for awhile because you drive a cool car and hang around hot girls, but then it didn't look like fun throwing up all over the place and dying. I like being alive and super cool. I have friends that are much cooler than yours in J Abs,Kroll,Burns and JB, but we have never gotten into the whole crack cocaine thing. You know what we find fun? We like to get in our luxury sports cars and drive around looking for a delicious cheesesteak restaurant. When we get there we order things that aren't on their menu and while they are trying to be helpful we break off into the all valley karate tournament scene re-enactment right in the middle of the place. It's a treat for the patrons of the place, but we don't end up getting any food. We usually get a standing ovation and about 19 phone numbers from beautiful women. We had that Andrew McCarthy ability to raise the level of the game and make others feel like they are being made fun of. We are satellite radio and you are a toaster.
Clean it up, cokewhores
This was probably the quintescinal movie about 80s yuppie greed. "Die Yuppie Scum" wasn't just a catch praise. A movie like this captures so much as a period in history as it does an attitude and a message. Here we see an insipid cast of 80s trust fund babies in southern California wasting their lives keeping a nose the the mirror while their parents in their tennis whites are either too busy, too frivolous, or too unattentive to care. Most of their sober moments are spent in paranoia and vomiting while they flounder from one place or party to another.
What's the point, some of you are asking? Well the underline point is "Just Say No", of course. But the minor points, as I would learn, lead down just such a destructive path. Robert Downey Jr. and the others who are all screwed up on drugs choose this for themselves. They are given every opportunity, every challenge, and ever material thing only to throw it away. I was just a kid when I saw this movie and didn't understand anything about it, except that they were people with problems. As an adult I would meet people who might not have been the wealthiest or most privilaged, but they were just as self centered and unwilling to do anything but drugs. They always claimed poverty, but always had enough money to buy drugs or take trips to places. They wanted freedom and indepence from their parents or other "establishment" things, but didn't do anything about it but more drugs. They always screamed and fought with their friends and loved ones, went further down the spiral and yet did nothing to change it. Getting high was what it was all about and you couldn't convince them otherwise. And you moved on to get a job and be responsible, they didn't. Tough. We all make choices in life, and this was theirs.
Must Have for 80's Genre
Totally 80's! Some of us had more than college to think about and were faced with more serious issues than mid-terms and finals! If you slipped through the crack and survived the decade of excess, this movie is a must have for your 80's collection. An outstanding performance by Robert Downey Jr. (perhaps a bit of real life?); with excellent back up by Spader, Gertz and even the weapy-eyed McCarthy! If you knew someone who didn't quite make it out alive, this movie will touch your heart.
A collective vanity piece for the so-called Brat Pack of the 1980s, this coming-of-age movie--written and directed by Joel Schumacher (A Time to Kill)--is a largely unbelievable ensemble piece about college grads having trouble getting a lift-off into adulthood. As in John Hughes's Breakfast Club--which has a lot of casting overlap with this film--each actor plays a rather narrow type with problems common to his or her classification. Some (as with Rob Lowe's seemingly doomstruck character) are more absurd than others. But absurdity isn't the issue in this movie; a general sense of indulgence is. Schumacher not only presumes an undeserved mystique about this cast, but he also exploits it and comes up empty. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Rob Lowe - Andrew McCarthy - Demi Moore Director(s): Joel Schumacher DVD Release Date: Released the 20 November 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The era of Molly Ringwald's profitable collaboration with writer-producer-director John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) was at its peak with this 1986 film (directed by Howard Deutch but in every sense part of the developing Hughes empire). Ringwald plays a high school girl on the budget side of the tracks, living with her warm and loving father (Harry Dean Stanton) and usually accompanied by her insecure best friend (Jon Cryer). When a wealthy but well-meaning boy (Andrew McCarthy) asks her out, her perspective is overturned and Cryer's character is threatened. As was the case in the mid-'80s, Hughes (who wrote the script and produced the film) brought his special feel for the cross-currents of adolescent life to this story. In its very commercial way, it is an... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Molly Ringwald - Jon Cryer Director(s): Howard Deutch DVD Release Date: Released the 20 August 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Tuff Turf has a great cast, great acting, cool music, great fight scenes, and of course shows James Spader in his best movie moment when he sings to Kim Richards! Ahhh!!!
James Spader is fantastic in this movie, and he looks hot even when he's beat up.
Kim Richards is so hot and her long hair realy defines her character!
Robert Downey Jr. Comon!!!He's awesome!!!
And of course Jack Mack and the Heart Attack comon putting them in your movie is pure genius!
If you have never seen this movie...you are deprived.
If you don't own this movie...you are missing out on a great movie gem.
GREAT, FANTASTIC, AWESOME. I GIVE IT 5 STARS!!! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Fritz Kiersch DVD Release Date: Released the 12 March 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Michael J. Fox plays the most sympathetic cocaine addict you've ever seen in the movie of Jay McInerney's popular novel Bright Lights, Big City, the book that famously chronicled the coke- and cash-fueled era of the 1980s. Jamie Conway (Fox) works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend (Kiefer Sutherland), he's on the verge of getting fired. His wife, a fast-rising model (Phoebe Cates), just left him; he's still reeling from the death of his mother (Dianne Wiest) a year earlier; and he's obsessed with a tabloid story about a pregnant woman in a coma. Bright Lights, Big City doesn't have much of a plot, but in its meandering way it captures some of the glossy chaos of the time and of a ... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Michael J. Fox - Kiefer Sutherland Director(s): James Bridges DVD Release Date: Released the 05 August 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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After dominating the teen-movie genre for the bulk of the 1980s, writer-producer (and sometimes director) John Hughes proved that he had at least one good movie left in him before squandering his talent on lame comedies throughout the 1990s. Like The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful treated its teenaged characters like real people with real feelings, hopes, fears, and desire. Mary Stuart Masterson gives a great performance as a tomboy drummer named Watts who's secretly in love with her best friend, Keith (Eric Stoltz), an aspiring artist who is oblivious to her affection because he's got a crush on Amanda (Lea Thompson), the popular high school beauty. Watts will even go so far as to chauffeur a date for Keith and Amanda, if only to... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eric Stoltz - Mary Stuart Masterson Director(s): Howard Deutch DVD Release Date: Released the 20 August 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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