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Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review

Less Than Zero (1987)

Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Shat the Movies, we tackle Less Than Zero (1987), where college freshman Clay (Andrew McCarthy) comes back to LA to find his ex, Blair (Jami Gertz), and his childhood buddy, Julian (Robert Downey Jr.), deep into cocaine addiction With Julian owing money to the ruthless dealer Rip (James Spader), Clay's mission to help them clean up reveals the wild side of '80s excess. Join us as we dig into the intense story, killer performances, and the movie's spot in the Brat Pack era, all set to an unforgettable soundtrack.

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Mexican drug dealers or he gets into like a group of what else what would be a

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scary underground LA crime game maybe some Columbians what do you think you know

0:11.8

I'm seeing a distinct anti-immigrant bent to this

0:15.4

dietribe but yes go on. Oh I'm just coming up with the yeah exactly the scary

0:20.8

immigrants maybe you're right you're scared of Mexicans and the

0:23.4

That is true, yes, those scary Mexicans.

0:25.4

What about the blacks, Big D?

0:27.0

Oh, those blacks, you gotta guess.

0:29.1

You never know what they're gonna do, it could be, you know.

0:32.4

Remember when we first met John McLean?

0:35.0

Our God picked him up from the plane

0:38.0

and took him down the Nackatomi Tower

0:41.0

at the Christmas party and the terrorists were over zealous but it was sweet

0:46.0

when they killed Ellis and with a little help from Allen John McLean King dies. Welcome back to Shaft the Movies, the podcast where we answer the question,

0:55.6

were the movies we love when we were growing up really that good.

0:58.1

If you ever caught yourself thinking, one of the make movies like they used to.

1:01.3

Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie

1:04.2

rental blockbuster video? Do you know what blockbuster video is? If you answer, yes, this is the

1:10.0

podcast for you. I am one of your hosts, Gene Lyons, and alongside it is my co-host, Big D Dick Ebert.

1:16.0

Good evening. And each week we take a look back in time and decide of our favorite film still hold up. The movies we cover are chosen by you

1:22.2

the listeners who generously

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commission the films you love. If you like to tell the movies we have

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