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The Rules of Attraction
2002
· Movie
· 110 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4085
- IMDb #3224
- Rotten Tomatoes #3242
- Metacritic #3749
- Letterboxd #2951
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4043
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2494
- Metacritic Critics #3419
- Metacritic Audience #4016
- Criticker #1931
- Kinopoisk #3673
- AlloCiné #3358
- Trakt #4269
Every rating
45–71
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 45, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 71. Critics average 48, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A darkly comedic look at the lives of a group of privileged, disaffected, and sexually adventurous college students at a liberal arts college in New England. Their lives intertwine through a series of hedonistic parties, failed relationships, and personal crises, all narrated from their various perspectives.
Details
- Director
- Roger Avary
- Writer
- Roger Avary
- Based on
- The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
- Released
- 11 October 2002
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $11.8M
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