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Less Than Zero, 1987
USA Today called the 1985 Bret Easton Ellis novel upon which this movie was based "the Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation." MTV generation, don't take that as a compliment. The 1987 film stars Robert Downey Jr. as college freshman Clay, who returns home to reunite with his drug-addicted friend Julian (Andrew McCarthy) and ex-girlfriend Blair (Jami Gertz). Like Holden, Clay mindlessly indulges in the hedonism of the city he occupies (For Clay, it's Los Angeles; Holden, New York) but never seems to find what he's after.

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