What Does 'The Shards' Get Right — and Wrong — About Bret Easton Ellis' Life?

The Shards is described as a fictionalized memoir about Bret Easton Ellis‘ high school years — so what is real and what is fake? According to the official synopsis, The Shards is set in Los Angeles in 1981 and follows “a 17-year-old version of Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school.” His world is upended by the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose “unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.” Igby Rigney portrays Ellis, now 62, in an adaptation based on Ellis’ book of the same name. T...

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