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Editor's Note
A bitter college graduate dreams of becoming a Hollywood script writer, while he struggles with poverty, menial temp jobs, an obsequious roommate and awkward romantic relationships. Acerbic comedy in the "Gen-X" style.
Plot Summary
This black comedy explores the dreary lives of a group of frustrated college graduates in Los Angeles.| After finishing his studies at Yale, John travels to Hollywood with dreams of finding success as an author. However, things don't quite work out. Along with his buddies from college, John spends much of his time goofing around. With his writing going nowhere, he takes a temporary job working for a credit card company, and then for a slum lord. | Into John's life steps Andrew, a nerd who becomes his new roommate. Friendly to an extreme, Andrew quickly is made the target of abuse by John and his friends, who can't bear the newcomer's niceness. | Meanwhile, John also repulses the advances of a pretty Southern floozy who keeps coming on to him.| Will John and his slacker buddies manage to find a direction for their aimless lives?
| Features | Hailed by critics as one of the most underrated and moving Generation X films to come out of the American independent cinema, The Low Life has finally reached cult status after its initial theatrical release in 1996. "A ?Day of the Locust' for the Gen-X Set!" wrote Steven Holden of The New York Times when he praised director George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl, Mayor of the Sunset Strip) for his funny and timeless semi-autobiographical portrayal of young, over educated twenty-somethings struggling to make ends meet on the fringes of Hollywood. |
| Through brilliant, hilarious dialogue, extraordinary performances and sensitive direction, The Low Life creates a dark, satiric world of languid discomfort, survival, and the ultimate impossibility of trying to be an artist without facing one's passions. As the film takes an unexpected, emotional turn at the end, the director proves that there is a right way to survive in a cynical world. With colorful, award-winning performances by a powerful ensemble cast that includes Rory Cochrane (Dazed and Confused), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Sean Astin (Lord of The Rings), Ron Livingston (Office Space), James LeGros (Zodiac), J.T. Walsh (A Few Good Men), Tony Award-winning Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife), Shawnee Smith (Leaving Las Vegas), Angel Aviles (Mi Vida Loca), Antoni Corrone (We Own The Night), Sara Melson (The Big Brass Ring) in addition to Renee Zellweger (Bridget Jones' Diary) in one of her first cinematic appearances. In this new director's cut, The Low Life finds an even broader audience as it delivers a fresh punch to the gut of nameless, faceless, decadent Los Angeles. |
| Source: Vanguard Cinema |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Vanguard Cinema |
| Release Date: 3/25/2008 |
| Running Time: 96 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 8112 | | UPC: 00658769811230 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "What kind of person would you be if you spent $857 at Basket World?" ---- John (RORY COCHRANE) | | "It makes me want to go on a killing spree." ---- Chad (RON LIVINGSTON), about the dead--end nature of his life. | | "I'm broke. I'm frustrated. I don't have any health insurance." ---- Leonard (CHRISTIAN MEOLI) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...Wryly humorous as well as compassionate....Hickenlooper evokes eternal truths about human emotions and responsibilities..." 07/11/1996 p.F4 |
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