Watch Less Than Zero For Free

Very Cool!!!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

No movie has captured the dark side if the 80s like Less Than Zero. The overindulgence era at its finest. The cast is is fantastic, a truly underrated performance by Robert Downey Jr. And James Spader. Jamie Gertz gets an A+ for her part of Blair. The soundtrack is an amazing undervalued masterpiece.

I guess that we all know about Robert Downey, Jr.'s struggle with substance abuse in real life that nearly cost him his career. I guess that gave him a unique insight into the mind of his character in Less Than Zero.Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, and Downey are all friends from high school and Gertz has romantic history with both of them. When his freshman year at college concludes, McCarthy gets an anxious summons from Gertz concerning Downey, but she's kind of cryptic about it. When McCarthy gets home he sees enough for himself.What he sees and we see is a harrowing portrait of a totally degenerated soul due to the drugs he's doing. All the lies and promises to kick the habit, the way he keeps coming back for more, even trying to con drug money on the pretense of a business loan. Downey with a jones is a pretty frightening fellow.Also in the cast is another brat packer of note James Spader who usually in his salad days was a nice kid. Not here, Spader has gone into the drug trade big time and he's quite ruthless as I guess you have to be. What he has Downey doing for his fix in lieu of cash is pretty scary.Thank God for Robert Downey, Jr. in real life it worked out far better than it does for his character here.Less Than Zero is a pretty frightening portrayal of addiction and degeneracy, not for family viewing, but a great film.

They tried to make Less than zero into a movie, but they had to censor some parts, probably too hard for the movie. But the success of the novel was the traumatizing things that happened to Clay and his friends, and if you censorship that in order to make a 'watchable' movie, you are going to fail.Let's remember that in the novel there are the rape of a twelve year old, a pimp injecting heroin into Julian's arm, and a dead boy of an overdose in an alley. You lose all that in the movie by censuring it. And I'm not defending the horrible things that happened in the book, I'm just saying that Less than zero was kinda of a morbid reading.Another thing they ignored (and it couldn't be because of censorship) was the ad that said 'DISSAPPEAR HERE', that constantly followed Clay through the city.

If anyone has seen this film you can see that it is a darker version of "Pretty In Pink." In "Pretty In Pink" Andrew McCarthy played Blaine, here it is Clay, (both times he is the good guy) and James Spader played the bad guy. There it was Steff, here it is Rip. The main reason to watch for me is Jami Gertz (Blair). I first noticed her on "Facts of Life" (as "Boots"), and I was hooked. I have seen 16 films of her (and except for "The Lost Boys" this is her best). I have read that Bret Easton Ellis did not like this adaptation of his book. Probably as a gay man, Jami Gertz was not his idea of a love interest, well as a straight guy, she was mine (although certainly not a nice wholesome girl). I give this film 9/10 stars (mostly for Jami and the soundtrack).