Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- James Van Der BeekSean Bateman
- Shannyn SossamonLauren Hynde
- Ian SomerhalderPaul Denton
- Jessica BielLara
- Kate BosworthKelly
- Jay BaruchelHarry
- Thomas Ian NicholasMitchell
- Russell SamsRichard 'Dick' Jared
- Kip PardueVictor
- Joel MichaelyRaymond
Recommandations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
The cast is a pitch-perfect assemblage of pretty young things, but James Van Der Beek, as a slit-eyed dorm stud, proves that he can be an actor of cruel force. - 80
Rolling Stone
Rules needs that dose of hilarity. Ellis' satire, filtered through Avary's harsh lens, is hard to stomach, harder to ignore. - 70
Dallas Observer
For all its kinetic energy, for all its camera tricks, for all its dark humor, there's still something a bit off about these Rules, and it's not really Avary's fault. - 70
Washington Post
The movie feels more like a walk across campus than a movie. That's so depressing. On the other hand, each of these lost children is really looking for the same thing, ol' Mr. Love. - 63
Boston Globe
If there's one thing Avary gets right, it's the brutal use-or-be-used approach to interpersonal relations that Ellis laid out with numbing detail, and James Van Der Beek is down to the challenge as Sean Bateman: horndog, cokehead, ceramics major, and all-around jerk. - 60
Variety
Gets an ambitious, sometimes inspired but ultimately less than satisfying screen treatment from Roger Avary. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Some of its parts are nifty, but the sum of these parts is nothing. - 50
Miami Herald
Hollow and pointless.
