This is not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis is an art documentary made for ITV's The South Bank Show and cinema. It was released in 1999. This is not an Exit is based on the life of American writer Bret Easton Ellis, The film is directed by Gerald Fox, introduced by Melvyn Bragg, produced by Julian Ozanne starring Bret Easton Ellis, Dechen Thurman, Rachel Weisz, Jason Bushman. The film premiered at the ICA in London before its television debut as a special on the South Bank Show It also had a limited theatrical release in New York and other cities.
Plot
The non-fiction, biopic, documentary is a two-part profile on the art and life of Bret Easton Ellis
Production
This is not an Exit looks at the life of writer Bret Easton Ellis, the American fiction and author of the seminal work Less Than Zero and American Psycho, combining interviews and fly-on-the-wall footage of the writer at home and in Los Angeles and New York with dramatized reconstructions from all his novels to reveal the inner world of the man and his fiction. The film takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to its subject featuring comic encounters with fellow writers Jay McInerney, Candace Bushnell and Will Self.