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Thierrybazzanella.com - The Opposite of Sex
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki
Directed By: Don Roos
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767809375
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0767809378
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 1999-04-20
Running Time: 105
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1998-05-22
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Editorial Reviews:
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Christina Ricci had a great year in 1998. The young actress continued to cast off her youthful image from the Addams Family movies and made a big splash on the independent movie scene, especially in this scathingly witty comedy in which Ricci has the central role. Here she plays Dedee, a buxom, sexually precocious teenager who's pregnant, cynical, and looking for a volunteer father for her unborn child. This takes her to the home of her gay half-brother (Martin Donovan) whose current lover (Ivan Sergei) becomes Dedee's latest target for seduction. That's just the start of the mischief that Dedee so masterfully orchestrates, and Lisa Kudrow (from TV's Friends) is also on hand to deliver some of the movie's most quotable dialogue while fending off the affection of a local policeman played by Lyle Lovett. If all this sounds rather sordid, rest assured that the movie's got a warm heart (well, sort of) beating beneath all of its sharp-edged sarcasm. Writer-director Don Roos (Single White Female) injects most of the movie's appeal and humor through Dedee's voice-over narration, which constantly reminds us that even the most familiar movie clichés can be cleverly overturned. As a result, The Opposite of Sex is the opposite of boring. --Jeff Shannon
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Customer Rating:
Summary: 8-)
Comment: Loved this movie! Might not be for everyone though . Amazing acting and great story.
Customer Rating:
Summary: 3 stars out of 4
Comment: The Bottom Line:
A well-written and quirkily amusing comedy, The Opposite of Sex is highly recommended for anyone sick of watching the same formulaic comedies again and again and again.
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Summary: The opposite of sex.
Comment: Christina Ricci is wonderful in this early movie. Some reviewers have criticized the performance of Lisa Kudrow, but I thought she added greatly to the story line.
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Summary: Young Woman Wreaks Havoc
Comment: 'The Opposite of Sex' is an interesting off-beat 1998 film that looks at real-life scenarios involving imperfect people that turn dramatic. The narrator of this story, Dede played by Christina Ricci, has an axe to grind, presumably due to her unpleasant childhood. As the movie opens, we see Dede desecrate her step-father's casket at his funeral while smoking a cigarette. She leaves the funeral early, and we see her jump into a convertable driven by Randy 'One Ball' Cates, an outspoken born-again Christian born with one testicle with whom she is romantically involved.
Upset with her family situation, she seeks out her much older gay half brother, played by Martin Donovan, a teacher named Bill who inhereted a large some of money from his deceased boyfriend, Tom, who died of AIDS. Tom's sister Lucia (pronounced "Lew-shuh"), played by Lisa Kudrow, who works as a teacher at the same high school as Bill and introduced Tom to Bill, is now a constant presence in Bill's life. When Dede arrives at Bills house, Bill's boyfriend Matt, played by Ivan Sergei, opens the door for her. Within a few weeks of living there, Dede seduces Matt and then tells him that she is pregnant with his baby. Matt concludes he is bisexual and becomes supportive of Dede, breaking up with Bill, who rightfully feels very mistreated.
Lucia and Bill are the moral compasses in this story. They are the reliable ones with the rightful claim to Tom's money who make sure everything turns out alright in the end. However, everything doesn't turn alright in the end for everyone. The greedy and cavalier personalities of Dede, Matt, and Randy act as a sort of 'axis of evil' when Matt and Randy get sucked into Dede's manipulative games. While Dede, pregnant and emotionally unstable, is vulnerable on one hand, her actions on the other hand ruin the lives of to whom she should be kind.
Dede has no conscience. Dede's character is slightly extreme in that nobody could really be this mean, but this film is a caricature of how cavalier and unconcerned people in real-life can become recklessly extravagant and screw up the situation for many people due to their uncensored greed and egotism.
This is a touching story because the scenario begins so seemingly normal. Then a vulnerable character, Dede, unwinds a delicately strung situation into an unraveled mess for everyone. Yet in the end, things start to work themselves out. For example, the whole dramatic scenario created by Dede helps Sherriff Carl Tippett, played by Lyle Lovett, to seek the courtship of Lucia by becoming involved with the legal scenario that Dede creates. With Matt's help, Dede illegally reposesses Tom's money and Tom's ashes, both of which rightfully belong to Bill and Lucia, allowing law enforcement to get involved. Bill and Lucia turn out to be the winners in the end because they can have the comfort of a clear conscience, but it is disappointing and discomforting when Dede gets off nearly scot-free.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Strange but Interesting
Comment: Delightfully different coming of age movie. You may have thought your teenager had an odd slant on life, but this young lady takes the cake, among other things. Funny and sad.
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