A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
Production
Genuinely immaculate 1980s LA aesthetic, wasted on this script.
Acting
Mickey Rourke doing unhinged things with a kidnapped child. Commitment.
Director
Gregor Jordan
Billy Bob Thornton
William Sloan
Kim Basinger
Laura Sloan
Jon Foster
Graham Sloan
Amber Heard
Christie
Winona Ryder
Cheryl Moore
Mickey Rourke
Peter
Rhys Ifans
Roger
Chris Isaak
Les Price
Austin Nichols
Martin
Lou Taylor Pucci
Tim Price
Mel Raido
Bryan Metro
Brad Renfro
Jack
Theo Rossi
Spaz
Cameron Goodman
Susan Sloan
Aaron Himelstein
Raymond
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ellis himself hated it, calling it 'a disaster' and disowning the final cut. The feeling was mutual.
This killed the 1980s-lit adaptation boom dead — audiences finally said 'actually, we don't want to watch rich people suffer beautifully.'
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