Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301006798 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6301006798 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: May 23, 2000 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: November 06, 1987 Sales Rank: 14879
Amazon.com: 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Less Than Zero
If you were in high school in the 80's you had to have seen this movie! I saw it in the theater 3 times & had to have it for our personal collection. Great movie!
Rating: - Great title, Great movie.
Less Than Zero I've heard of this movie for years & I finally got it! It's a sad & intense tale of someone who "marches to the beat of their own drum" (while strung out on drugs & alcohol) ... Read More
Rating: - Good for Downey jr Fans
Great movie for any fans of Downey Jr. You can see his desperation and the lost hope of his friends and family. Awesome performance.
Rating: - Seems Like a Flashy Version of an Afterschool Special about Drug Abuse.
"Less Than Zero" must be in the running for the movie that least resembles its source material, in this case Bret Easton Ellis' 1985 novel of the same name. In this 1987 film, Clay (Andrew McCarthy) returns ... Read More
Rating: - Downey's performance MAKES 'Less Than Zero' into something compelling and watchable.
It is not quite the compliment it may sound to say that Robert Downey Jr. steals every scene in LESS THAN ZERO (even the ones he's not in). His co-stars in this botched film version of the infamous Bret Easton ... Read More
- Less Than Zero
- Good for Downey jr Fans
- Seems Like a Flashy Version of an Afterschool Special about Drug Abuse.