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October 8, 2002 — EXCERPT from The Times Online: The "problems," as Dranger describes, facing campuses across the country range from substance abuse, depression and suicide to date rape, emerging sexual orientation and relationship co-dependency, to name a few.

All of these topics are tackled in a new movie from Lions Gate Films, "The Rules of Attraction," opening nationwide Oct. 11. Starring a cast including "Dawson's Creek's" James Van Der Beek, "The Wonder Years' " Fred Savage, Eric Stoltz, Paul Williams, Faye Dunaway, Swoosie Kurtz, "American Pie's" Thomas Ian Nicholas and "Life As A House's" Ian Somerhalder, the film takes a hard look at some of the problems that face young adults in their college years.

"The Rules of Attraction," which is rated R, is Academy Award-winning director/writer Roger Avary's film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis social satire of life and love among the young and privileged on a college campus.

Avary agrees with Dranger's idea that many social issues facing college students today are the same one young adults wrestled with two decades ago. In fact, even though the original screenplay by Ellis was set in the early 1980s, Avary was able to easily adapt it to take place in the present.

"It's a complicated answer when I tell people that the story takes place during no time," said Avary, who describes his movie as one that "not only speaks of the current generation, but to them as well."

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