5.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Less Than Zero (1987)
Less Than Zero (1987)
Overview
A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
5.6
Overview
A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film acts as a cautionary tale against hedonism and drug abuse, emphasizing individual responsibility for destructive choices and portraying personal redemption through the intervention of loyal friends rather than systemic solutions.
The film features traditional casting with no apparent intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative focuses on the destructive lifestyle of its characters, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering on DEI themes.
Secondary
The film adaptation of "Less Than Zero" (1987) largely omitted the explicit LGBTQ+ themes and characters present in Bret Easton Ellis's source novel. The narrative focuses on heterosexual relationships and drug addiction, resulting in no identifiable LGBTQ+ presence or themes to evaluate within the film itself.
The film "Less Than Zero" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative primarily focuses on themes of drug addiction, prostitution, and the decadent lifestyle of wealthy youth in Los Angeles, without engaging with transgender identity or related plot points.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1987 film 'Less Than Zero' adapts the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. A review of the main characters from the source material and their portrayals in the film reveals no instances where a character's gender was changed.
The 1987 film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel "Less Than Zero" maintains the implied racial identities of its main characters from the source material. No characters canonically established as one race were portrayed by actors of a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.4
6.4
Critic Ratings
5.0
4.8
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