The Rules of Attraction (2002)
The Rules of Attraction was the link movie connecting The A-Team and Life as a House.
Linked through Jessica Biel and Ian Somerhalder.
Both Jessica Biel and Ian Somerhalder appeared in The Rules of Attraction.
About The Rules of Attraction
"We all run on instinct"
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Directed by Roger Avary
Written by Roger Avary
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Awards
At the 14th GLAAD Media Awards the film was nominated for Best Film—Wide Release by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, but it lost to The Hours.
Soundtrack
Score by Tom Hajdu
Much of the score and source music was created by Andy Milburn and Tom Hadju (tomandandy). The soundtrack also features period songs by The Cure, Love and Rockets, Public Image Ltd., Blondie, The Go-Go's, Yazoo, Erasure, plus tracks by The Rapture, Milla Jovovich, Der Wolf, and Serge Gainsbourg. Tomandandy developed the Mono SR simplified noise reduction format for the film (2001–2002).
Movie trivia
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The film was shot on location at the University of Redlands in California.
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It was one of the first studio features edited using Final Cut Pro (a beta of FCP 3), demonstrating successful 3:2 pulldown matchback to 24fps and leading director Roger Avary to appear in FCP print ads.
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Roger Avary originally wrote the screenplay as a college student without acquiring the book rights, then reconceived and rewrote it 15 years later, adding unconventional screenplay items like camera movement and motion-control equipment notes.
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Facing budget constraints, Avary financed and personally filmed Victor's European trip by following actor Kip Pardue with a handheld camera while the actor remained in character from boarding the plane.
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Lions Gate initially received an NC-17 rating; Avary made cuts to secure an R rating, and multiple versions exist worldwide — the Australian release is uncut by 22 seconds and a French two-disc Special Edition is the longest known version.
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Casper Van Dien shot scenes as Patrick Bateman (the character is noted as Sean Bateman's brother) but those scenes were filmed and not included in the final cut.
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