99 min listen
177. Less Than Zero with special guest Ben Cheaves
177. Less Than Zero with special guest Ben Cheaves
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98 minutes
Released:
Dec 16, 2022
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Podcast episode
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It's Christmas in LA, and remember to payback your drug dealer for the 50K you own him! We're rounding out our Bret Easton Ellis discussion on the podcast just in time for the holidays, and watched Less Than Zero with our friend Ben Cheaves from TCM Slumberground. It's a home for the holidays tale as old as time. Clay (Andrew McCarthy) comes back home from his preppy east coast college at the request of his coked out ex-girlfriend Blair (Jami Gertz) to find his out control friend Julian (Robert Downey Jr.) on a drug spiral. Part portrait of 80s excess, and cautionary drug tale, this movie is a fasinating rewatch decades later. We talk about the polarizing sex appeal of Andrew McCarthy, how Jami Gertz is acting in a completely different movie than the rest of the cast. (And we're oddly enough here for it) And how the bisexualness of its source material is heavily toned down from page to screen. Despite all this movies faults (and there are a lot) were still here for it as a perfect time capsule of the mid-1980s from the stacked TVs, Jami's teased hair, to its girl rock anthem Hazy Shade of Winter by the Bangles on its soundtrack. Thanks for listening and don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! www.patreon.com/moviesthatmadeusgay Facebook/Instagram: @moviesthatmadeusgay Twitter: @MTMUGPod Scott Youngbauer: Twitter @oscarscott / Instagram @scottyoungballer Peter Lozano: Twitter/Instagram @peterlasagna
Released:
Dec 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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