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NUMBERS
Box Office: $6,466,416
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CONSENSUS
A tiresome movie about unsympathetic college kids engaging in self-destructive behaviors.
CAST & CREW
James Van Der Beek, Jessica Biel, Ian Somerhalder
Directed by Roger Avary
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SYNOPSIS
This, then, is the domain of Camden College, a small, affluent liberal arts college somewhere in New England, and its human satellites. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong sexual content, drug use, language, and violent images
RUNTIME
1 hour, 50 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 11, 2002
Video: Feb 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Lions Gate Films
GENRE
Dramas, Love Triangle, Drug Dealers, Love Triangles
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Rules of Attraction Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "It’s not life-affirming — its vulgar and mean, but I liked it."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "The worst film of the year."
-- Boo Allen, DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
"It's secondary to American Psycho but still has claws enough to get inside you and stay there for a couple of hours."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"The Rules of Attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"A misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip, young adult entertainment."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"The kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"You have no affinity for most of the characters. Nothing about them is attractive. What they see in each other also is difficult to fathom."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"An annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
"Characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses, no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license Avary employs."
-- Carlo Cavagna, ABOUTFILM.COM
"Depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen, then laughs at how clever it's being."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"It's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"The events of the film are just so WEIRD that I honestly never knew what the hell was coming next."
-- Criminy Pete, CRIMINYPETE.COM
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"Though Avary has done his best to make something out of Ellis' nothing novel, in the end, his Rules is barely worth following."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"... a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Like an episode of MTV’s Undressed, with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance...indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"The thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes (of which they’ll get plenty) fills me with revulsion."
-- Josef Braun, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"Its salient points are simultaneously buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director Roger Avary."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"Feral and uncomfortable."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The biggest problem with Roger Avary’s uproar against the MPAA is that, even in all its director’s cut glory, he’s made a film that’s barely shocking, barely interesting and most of all, barely anything."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"The film sometimes flags...but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk, amusing pace."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Over-the-top and a bit ostentatious, this is a movie that’s got oodles of style and substance."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"...the first 2/3 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny, thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices ( cool visual backmasking), a solid cast, and some wickedly sick and twisted humor..."
-- Spence D., IGN FILMFORCE
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ROTTEN 31%
Avg. Rating: 4.9/10 |
"Interminably bleak, to say nothing of boring."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"The Rules of Attraction is not mainstream fare, but it is quirky and interesting, and worth a look for those who don't mind movies where you end up despising just about everyone who has a speaking part."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"For casual moviegoers who stumble into Rules expecting a slice of American Pie hijinks starring the kid from Dawson's Creek, they'll probably run out screaming."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"A bravura exercise in emptiness."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Cinematic pyrotechnics aside, the only thing Avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude. It makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good time."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"The nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome, with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"There is no entry portal in The Rules of Attraction, and I spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow, selfish, greedy characters."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate, tiresome ugliness, it would be rendered tedious by Avary's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Avary's film never quite emerges from the shadow of Ellis' book."
-- Scott Foundas, VARIETY
"A party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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"If you are curious to see the darker side of what's going on with young TV actors (Dawson Leery did what?!?), or see some interesting storytelling devices, you might want to check it out, but there's nothing very attractive about this movie."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
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