

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
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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