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Synopsis: Clay, an eighteen-year-old freshman, comes back from his first term at Princeton to spend his Christmas vacation with his broken-up wealthy family in Los Angeles. His former girlfriend, Blair, is now involved with his ex-best-friend, Julian. She warns Clay that Julian needs help: he is using a lot of cocaine and has huge debts. What follows is a look at the youth culture of wealthy post adolescents in Beverly Hills with a strong anti-drug message. Apart from the setting and the names, the film has very little to do with Bret Easton Ellis's book by the same title on which it was based.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Marek Kanievska
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
54%
R
Year:
1987
98 min
2,068 Views


that I know how much you've helped me.

You've helped me

when I didn't deserve help.

You've been so kind to me,

no matter how much I keep f***ing up.

This is why I'm going

to make it up to you for everything.

I'm going to deserve

your friendship.

That's it. I wanted you

to hear it from me.

I want you to stop me before I say

something grotesquely sentimental.

You need a doctor.

No, I don't.

I just need to get outta here.

A couple hours sleep,

I'll be a new me.

You're sure?

Yeah.

Julian.

Come on.

Jul--

Julian.

- Don't, man--

- What?

No.

No.

No.

Oh, my God.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

I'm sorry.

No.

Oh, my God.

I remember, Julians mother

died when we were 5,

and it was awful.

Julian didn't cry,

though, or nothin'.

He just sat by the phone because

his mom used to call him every day

when she was away on business.

Nobody could get Julian

away from the telephone.

Mr. Wells, he called all our parents,

but nothing worked.

So one day, Mr. Wells,

he sent Julian a telegram

like it was from his mother,

saying that she had died

and gone to heaven.

I remember Julian

showing it to me.

He carried it

around for a year,

and he was OK.

He was a tough little kid.

I don't know.

I did everything

that I could do.

Ohh...

I'm going to miss him so much.

Well, I'm going away tomorrow,

and I want you

to come with me.

OK?

Yes, I want to go with you.

I do.

- I want to.

- Good.

# My time has come,

the clouds are calling #

# December wind

has come my way #

#And now I feel

the world falling #

#All at once #

# It's too late #

# Life fades away #

# Life fades away #

#The night is my way #

#All thoughts slip away #

#And even though

I must leave you #

# Remember I love you #

# I'll always be #

# In your memory #

# I will always

be with you #

#When I am gone #

# Babe, life fades away #

# Oh, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah #

# Life fades away #

# I'm tired of tomorrow #

# Lost for today #

# I long to hear #

#That peaceful river #

# My time is here #

#And even though

I will miss you #

# I must leave you #

# Babe, life fades away #

# Oh, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah #

# Life fades away #

# So please forgive me #

#And try not to cry #

# I long to be #

#At peaceful river more #

# Forevermore #

# Oh, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah #

# Oh, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah #

# Oh, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah #

# Life fades away #

# Life fades away #

# Life fades away #

#Away #

# One last thing to say #

# Life fades away ##

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Harley Peyton

Harley Peyton is an American television producer and writer. He worked in both capacities on Twin Peaks and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his writing on the series. He went to Harvard and Stanford. more…

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