Product Details

• Actors: Dechen Thurman, Rachel Weisz, Jason Bushman, Paul Blackthorne, Marieclaire Camilleri
• Directors: Gerald Fox
• Writers: Bret Easton Ellis
• Producers: Julian Ozanne, Melvyn Bragg
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: First Run Features
• VHS Release Date: October 17, 2000
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004WL55
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,080 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Abandon all hope ye who enter, October 17, 2000

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Alex Perry "-Alex" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Fans of Ellis' fiction will throughly enjoy this study of his works. It focuses not only on his most popular novel "American Psycho" but other fan favorites like Glamorama. Anyone who wonders what makes this mastermind tick will need to see this documentary.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Murky lighting, odd casting, but fun, March 12, 2007

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Bachelier ""1004"" (Ile de France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The small world of New York indie films in the 1980s which spun off the better products through the salon centring around Whit Stillman have an obverse in the crowd centering around Bret Easton Ellis. Their product is "This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis" and for Ellis fans a welcome exploration.

But this "film" is more like Ellis's friends at the time doing shooters and then acting out digestible snippets from his novel(s) with good cameras but odd lighting. Rachel Weisz fans will enjoy the advent of her loveliness in this early work. Photographer Huger Foote (son of Shelby) plays an MTV VJ. But after that, casting is a little bleak and appears to have been driven by availability with the equipment schedule.

Lots of fun, but I looked in vain for a cameo by Donna Tartt.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bad Casting, December 6, 2001

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"[e-mail]" (Overland Park, KS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The video itself is pretty good and it's interesting to hear Ellis speak about his works and the thoughts behind them. I also enjoyed the interviews the big flap surrounding American Psycho. However, as one reviewer noted, the actor playing Patrick Bateman was a horrible choice - not good looking, saggy body - certainly not anything like Christian Bale's portrayal in the movie. This made the AM Psycho re-enactments "less than zero."