The Rules of Attraction
Set in the fictional Camden College in New Hampshire, the film opens at the "End of the World" party, where students Lauren Hynde, Paul Denton, and Sean Bateman give apathetic interior monologues on their lives and briefly exchange glances with one another. Lauren, previously a virgin, takes a film student upstairs to have sex and passes out; she wakes to find herself being raped by a townie while the film student records it, and reflects on how she had planned to lose her virginity to Victor, her now ex-boyfriend. Meanwhile, Paul, who is bisexual, tries to have sex with a jock, only to be bashed when it turns out the jock is deeply closeted. A bruised and beaten Sean is shown drinking a whole bottle of Jack Daniel's, tearing up a series of purple letters, before approaching and having sex with a blonde girl at the party.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Country: | Germany, United States |
Produced By: | Roger Avary, Marc Butan, Jeremiah Samuels, James Deutch, Greg Shapiro, Samuel Hadida, Tom Ortenberg, Marsha Oglesby, Michael Paseornek |
Directed By: | Roger Avary |
Written By: | Roger Avary, Bret Easton Ellis |
Cast: | Faye Dunaway, Swoosie Kurtz, Eric Szmanda, Jeff Espanol, C. Robert Cargill, Matthew Lang, Clifton Collins Jr., Ron Jeremy, Jennifer Shea, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Colin Bain, Cheyenne Wilbur, Tara Kleinpeter, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue, Katja Schuurman, Rowland Wafford, Michael Ralph, Chasen Hampton, James Van Der Beek, Russell Sams, Tommy Ritter, Drew Wood, Joel Michaely, Cory Elgin, Kavan Reece, Curtis Andersen, Jay Baruchel, Skyler Stone, Shannyn Sossamon, Eric Stoltz, Kate Bosworth, Brian Villarante, Stevo Polyi, Alexis Krause, Holly Hollywood, Fred Savage, Corina Marinescu, Charlie Babcock, Paul Williams, Ian Somerhalder, Noelle Evans, Lucille M. Oliver, Jesse Heiman, Saskia Slaaf, Adam Robitel, Theresa Wayman, Clare Kramer, Briony Shackell, Alaina, Anderson Goncalves, Cris Gurtman, Angela Antonini, Emily Kennedy, Giovanni Capitello, Aurora Snow |
In Theaters: | Oct 11, 2002 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 50 minutes |
Production: | Kingsgate Films, Roger Avary Filmproduktion GmbH |
Budget: | $4,000,000 |
Box Office: | $6,532,619 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |