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	The Rules of Attraction film review
		The Rules Of Attraction is Roger Avary's bravura adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis's novel about sex, drugs and teenage angst on an '80s college campus.
		For all of its moments of heart-rending horror, such as a deeply upsetting suicide sequence that is physically impossible to stomach, the film is speckled with glimmers of comedy and absurdity.
		The Rules Of Attraction is cinema at its most energetic and hip, set to a soundtrack of thumping pop classics.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/the_rules_of_attraction.html (676 words)

	The Rules of Attraction (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rules of Attraction (2002) is a dark satire based on the novel The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis.
		The film takes place at the fictional Camden College, a liberal arts school somewhere in New England.
		Sean Bateman's brother Patrick Bateman, the main character of American Psycho, appears in the Rules of Attraction novel, but not in the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rules_of_Attraction_(film) (586 words)

	The Rules of Attraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rules of Attraction is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis published in 1987.
		The Rules of Attraction was adapted into a film of the same name in 2002.
		An implementation of a "beginning is the end," plot structure, where we are introduced to the characters at a party which is chronologically at the end of the events of the movie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rules_of_Attraction (1123 words)

	OnWisconsin Live Movies: The Rules of Attraction
		in "The Rules of Attraction," is a drug-pimping student at a private college, far from the starry-eyed, lovable Dawson Leery.
		But "The Rules of Attraction" is head-on and full-tilt faithful to Ellis' self-destructive spirit, from which averting your eyes is a good option.
		For a film about excess, "Rules" is a surprisingly coherent bit of storytelling that uses narration, jumbled timelines and a patchwork structure to visually suggest this synaptically disorienting behavior.
	www.onwisconsin.com /movies/movie.asp?id=644 (1102 words)

	The Rules of Attraction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the film opens, it is the end of the fall semester, and a huge party has been thrown to celebrate.
		Rules begins with the gurgle as the last of the water is sucked down the drain.
		The Rules of Attraction yearns to be a carefully crafted moral condemnation, an origami of the debauched.
	www.cinemapprentice.com /rules.htm (663 words)

	The Rules Of Attraction : film review
		The Rules Of Attraction is about a love triangle in an East Coast college between Sean Bateman, Lauren Hyde and Paul Denton.
		Indeed it could be argued that the whole film is rather empty, focussing as it does on the shallow lifestyles of the rich and privileged.
		The Rules Of Attraction will sharply divide audiences between those who love its energy and style, and those who are repelled or exhausted by it.
	www.musicomh.com /films/rules-of-attraction.htm (531 words)

	Rules of Attraction, The (2002): Reviews
		Such is the case with the callow and cynical The Rules of Attraction.
		The Rules of Attraction is the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste.
		Rules Of Attraction is by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life, I am still recovering from it.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/rulesofattraction (1374 words)

	Apple - Pro/Film - “The Rules of Attraction” (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The three hats worn by writer/director/producer Roger Avary while filming his new movie, “The Rules of Attraction,” made him highly accountable, creatively and fiscally — to himself.
		After leaving a screening of Roger Avary’s just-released “The Rules of Attraction,” unhappy with the film’s subject, he had second thoughts, which provoked a second look and a revised opinion.
		The movie is social criticism, a condemnation of the luxurious debauchery of the ruling class.
	www.apple.com /pro/film/avary (661 words)

	The Rules of Attraction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		American Psycho has all the trappings of a thoughtful film except profundity – it’s a swimming pool without a deep end." The Rules of Attraction, a new film based on an earlier Ellis novel, might then be called, not unfairly, a kiddie pool without water.
		In The Rules of Attraction, it's Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), officially the brother of Patrick, but really just an earlier version of the same guy, an utterly repellent character without redeeming value on screen.
		Killing Zoe) fills his film with drugs (soft and hard) and sex (soft and hard), presumably offering social satire of the overprivileged collegians as the excuse for a constant stream of dope smoking, coke snorting (with nosebleed), and shooting up--not to speak of rape, masturbation, suicide, and an orgy scene--a clear allusion to
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies5/RulesofAttraction.htm (545 words)

	The Rules Of Attraction film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		Set in New England during the 80's, The Rules Of Attraction is based around three students who have no particular plans for the future, who get involved in a curious romantic triangle.
		I'm a little late in posting this X rated trailer for The Rules Of Attraction, but here it is none the less.
		A report on Rules Of Attraction was printed in the January 2002 issue of Total Film magazine.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/r/rulesofattraction.htm (859 words)

	Film Scouts Reviews: Rules of Attraction, The (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Roger Avery's flashy adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' satirical novel, The Rules of Attraction, is all surface and no substance.
		In "Rules of Attraction," we follow empty people whose minds are focused exclusively on their own needs, minus the threads to drive their freewheeling narratives forward.
		The only burst of energy that captures the film's snide "been there, done that" sense of boredom is a lesser character's whirlwind travel diary of Europe.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/review.cfm?File=3003 (547 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - The Rules of Attraction
		The film is ripe with literary and film references (The Wicker Man, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude) that deliriously point to but never dwell on this teen angst.
		The dynamics of the boy-who-likes-boy-who-likes-girl triangle are ultimately less crucial than the film itself as a collection of signs and gags which individually point to everything that is wrong with college experience.
		The film's groove is sometimes nauseating—the rewinding film stock and frequent time-lapses have a way of displacing the events of the film to memory only to then regurgitate them back to the present.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=497 (532 words)

	The Rules of Attraction
		The Rules of Attraction, based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel, is his rallying cry at Hollywood for people to take notice.
		The Rules of Attraction follows some college students as they seem to do everything except go to class.
		Avary's use of the film going backwards is a little excessive, enough so that it feels like it adds too much time to the film.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/rules_of_attraction.html (482 words)

	FilmJerk.com - The Rules of Attraction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Brief: October 11th sees the release of "The Rules of Attraction," the third Bret Easton Ellis novel adapted to the screen, with Roger Avary of the cult film Killing Zoe directing.
		Beginning in the fall of 1985, "The Rules of Attraction" focuses on the love triangle between three students at Camden College.
		Ain’t It Cool News describes the roll as "an absolute f* doll in the film."** This is an odd move by Biel, who entered the public consciousness as the daughter Mary Camden in "7th Heaven," then was heavily criticized for a scantily-clad spread she had done in Gear Magazine.
	www.filmjerk.com /new/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=341 (2470 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Film: The Rules of Attraction
		Montreal Mirror - Film: The Rules of Attraction
		A book like The Rules of Attraction, one of Bret Easton Ellis’s quintessentially ’80s novels, could so easily have been mishandled on its way to the big screen.
		Avary rewinds quite literally—and effectively—having the film run backwards as we segue back to where it all began.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2002/101002/film2.html (437 words)

	DVD Times - The Rules of Attraction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Rules of Attraction follows a group of American college students through a semester of mayhem, lots of partying, plenty of drugs, and even more sex, and one of those students just happens to be Patrick’s brother.
		Shanynn Sossaman, in only her third film, goes further to prove she’s a rising star with real potential enjoying a role that actually requires her to act rather than play a simple romantic object of lust.
		The Rules of Attraction is an excellent film presented on a DVD that lacks in so many areas.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=11125 (3069 words)

	The Rules of Attraction
		At Camden College, where dope, partying and sex rule, Sean Bateman (James van der Beek, TV's "Dawson's Creek"), brother of American Psycho Patrick, is intrigued by the mysterious love letters he thinks are being left by Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon, "40 Days and 40 Nights").
		The film begins at the brutal end, with a drunken Lauren inadvertently starring in an amateur porn film after receiving a vicious snarl from a cynical Paul while Sean, declaring himself an emotional vampire, beads in on his next screw (Kate Bosworth, "Blue Crush").
		The film sometimes flags when it concentrates on the hit and miss relationship between Sean and Lauren, but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk, amusing pace.
	www.reelingreviews.com /therulesofattraction.htm (1260 words)

	the rules of attraction
		Avary also gives us a high-speed condensed version of Victor's drugs-and-sex-fueled trip through Europe; the sequence is a mini-essay on the maxim "Brevity is the soul of wit." On one level, The Rules of Attraction is brilliant film-geek eye candy, borrowing liberally from the greats (Kubrick, Scorsese) to tell a story fundamentally not worth telling.
		This one has Eric Stoltz as a leering Irish professor, and Fred Savage tootling on his clarinet while riding a heroin high, and a student walking backwards through the snow, erasing his footprints as the snow flutters upward.
		And by example and without editorializing, The Rules of Attraction also manages to comment on the follies of excess and instant gratification.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/rulesofattraction.html (660 words)

	Writings on the Wall - The Rules of Attraction
		She is perhaps the only virgin at Camden, but we all know how that situation always ends up, and the film takes an unsettling interest in her sexual fall from grace.
		And yet Sean Bateman is still at the core of this film, and that fact is the breaking point as to why it fails in the ways that it does.
		The successes of The Rules of Attraction, and there are enough to warrant mention, are rooted in the film's reckless sense of humor.
	members.aol.com /penguin5x5/RulesOfAttraction.html (797 words)

	The Rules of Attraction (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Roger Avary, co-writer of Pulp Fiction, has adapted his new film, The Rules of Attraction from a rather empty, insignificant novel by Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho.
		The movie's first narrator, Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), whose droopy eyeliner always makes it seem like she's crying, warns everyone at the start, "It's a story that might bore you." Her tale depicts the loss of her virginity in a demeaning circumstance at Camden College's "End of the World" party.
		Rules is fairly straightforward afterwards, and follows the general thrust of Ellis' novel — that love and lust are rarely reciprocated.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=134831&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (604 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - The Rules of Attraction
		As the film continues its endless procession through preposterous themed parties over the course of a school year, it stretches its own credibility and, worse yet, begins to leave us numb to its cynical outlook.
		Most of the film wants to chill the audience to the bone, but with a snickering voyeur behind the camera, it’s tough to take anything seriously, much less be disturbed by any of it.
		By not providing enough insight into what makes these characters so abysmal, the film seems to be suggesting that all of humanity is stuck in their rut, and since that’s clearly not true, it seems as self-absorbed as the characters it seems to be criticizing.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2002/rulesofattraction.htm (454 words)

	Syracuse New Times: Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Previous film adaptations of novelist Bret Easton Ellis' social satires have met with mixed success, possibly because those movies seem representative of their respective eras.
		Writer-director Roger Avary's cinematic vision of the 1987 book The Rules of Attraction emerges as the best of the Ellis bunch, even though it's a snarky, bilious, nihilistic haul that's as audacious as it is off-putting.
		Avary follows the trio through their respective misbehaviors as one giant flashback, as he juggles time paradoxes and even plays certain sequences in reverse to show the progress of these disillusioned characters.
	newtimes.rway.com /films/rules02.htm (337 words)

	The Rules of Attraction: triple j film reviews
		The Rules of Attraction is the third Bret Easton Ellis novel to be made into a film.
		the film is full of unneccesary characters, dick, the professor, mitchell and fred savage, but its almost worth watching just for their contributions.
		What a waste of time this film is! This movie is a giant boring cliche: unimaginative character designs (Grey=Ben Affleck, General Hein is a practically a composite of every villain from the last fifty years), bloodless action scenes ripped wholesale from the superior Aliens and Starship Troopers and ludicrous dialogue.
	www.abc.net.au /triplej/review/film/s782924.htm (6813 words)

	DVD.net : The Rules of Attraction - DVD Review
		The Rules of Attraction is based on the novel of the same name by American writer, Bret Easton Ellis.
		There is a depressing and morbid veil that hangs over much of the film, as the dysfunctional characters resort to all manner of attention seeking and exhibitionist behaviour.
		The film utilises narration to convey meaning that is rarely missed, and there is quite a lot of reversal in the film as we are taken back to certain points where we shoot off on a tangent, following the chain of events through the eyes of another central character.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2702 (1173 words)

	Film Review: The Rules Of Attraction
		It's not so much the rules of attraction as the abuse of privilege.
		The film begins back-to-front at The End Of The World party, where Lauren loses her virginity to an oaf she hasn't met, so drunk he vomits over her, and then flips time to show how they reached this point and why their emotional lives are arid.
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	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/r/rules_of_attraction_2002.shtml (437 words)

	MOVIE - THE RULES OF ATTRACTION - Review Rating $ (OUT OF 10)
		In The Rules of Attraction what's presented, in between the rape / suicide / accidental death, is as vacuous as the characters it portrays.
		If you are not a book reader, but a fan of Ellis's and American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction might be of interest to you as a means of seeing the historical development of some of Ellis's characters.
		The Rules of Attraction is, quite simply, a piece of trash without any artistic merit.
	radio.weblogs.com /0108788/stories/2002/10/22/movieTheRulesOfAttractiono.html (520 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - The Rules of Attraction directed by Director: Roger Avary - reviewed ...
		The Rules of Attraction is no different, but it also sags under an arsenal of pointless stylistic tics and relentless attempts at individualism that are more dreary and self indulgent than shocking or darkly funny.
		The Rules of Attraction focuses on a trio of repulsive, narcissistic college kids: the brooding, self-destructive Sean, played by James Van Der Beek (of Dawson's Creek fame), the brooding, self-destructive Lauren, played by Shannyn Sossamon and the brooding, self-destructive Paul, played by Ian Somerhalder.
		Presumably these scenes are meant to expose the tawdriness of the character's lives with cutting fl humour – and of course, whether they're funny or not depends on the viewer, but they certainly don't offer much insight into the characters, or why they act the way they do.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/the_rules_of_attraction.php (1150 words)

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