10 Awesome Movie Scenes We Can't Stop Rewatching

Despite having been adapted from a Bret Easton Ellis novel, and having been helmed by Pulp Fiction (1994) co-creator Roger Avary, The Rules of Attraction doesn't get as much of an airing as it deserves. An anti-college-movie, Rules takes an irreverent and occasionally transgressive approach to the established formula of wild parties, budding romances, and casual drug use, via a trio of (intentionally) apathetic students - Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder), and Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) - at a rural New Hampshire college.

Amid the degradation and debauchery, there is one scene that stands out thanks to some whip-smart editing and a soundtrack that almost didn't happen.

Visiting their mothers in the city, Paul and Dick (Russell Sams) wind up sharing a hotel, and things get a little silly between the closeted boys on the run up to dinner. The pair frolic, dance and throw themselves around on the hotel room beds to George Michael's "Faith" while their mothers wait at the dining room table self-medicating. The genius of the scene lies in the sharp cuts between the dining and hotel rooms, stop-starting the music and ramping up the comedy for the hilarious dinner table scene that follows. As if that wasn't enough, the scene was never even meant to exist, as Avary shot it spontaneously on set, with the music, and then wrote George Michael to beg for the music rights.