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The Opposite Of Sex
1998
Sixteen-year-old Deedee runs away from Louisiana to live with her half-brother Bill, an English teacher who happens to be gay. Lucia, Bill's sexually-repressed best friend, distrusts her. These suspicions are confirmed when Deedee lures Bill's boyfriend into bed and talks him into stealing $10,000 from Bill and running away .. Read more
| Starring | Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett |
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| Director | Don Roos |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Opposite Of Sex
Sixteen-year-old Deedee runs away from Louisiana to live with her half-brother Bill, an English teacher who happens to be gay. Lucia, Bill's sexually-repressed best friend, distrusts her. These suspicions are confirmed when Deedee lures Bill's boyfriend into bed and talks him into stealing $10,000 from Bill and running away with her to Los Angeles. To make matters worse for Bill, his bitter ex-lover frames him for sexual harassment, causing a scandal in their quiet town. This forces him and Lucia to go on a wild chase in search of Matt and Deedee in order to clear his name. They are joined by Sheriff Carl Tippett, a friend, who begins to fall in love with Lucia. A black comedy about what people must go through in order to find "the opposite of sex" - lasting, committed, and loving relationships.
| Starring | Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Jon Galecki, Ivan Sergei |
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| Director | Don Roos |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 19 Jul 1999 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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A musical remake of The Women, but while that MGM classic featured no men in its cast, this film makes the mistake of letting them in, allowing the pretty dreary Jeff Richards and a young Leslie Nielsen to appear opposite female stars Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller (not on screen enough) and Joan Blondell. The only fly in the ointment is top-billed June Allyson, who seems neither sophisticated nor brittle enough for the shenanigans in Clare Boothe Luce's play. There's also strong support from Barbara Jo Allen, Agnes Moorehead and Charlotte Greenwood, and good use of early CinemaScope. It's sexy, witty and glamorous, and if you can forget the original, it's a lot of fun.
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"...[An] unmitigated hoot....Roos turns every American sterotype...into its opposite and back again with precise comedic timing....[Kudrow] manages to be both ridiculous and endearing, like [the film itself]..." -- Rating: A-
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Phoebe on steroids!
You can't look at Lisa Kudrow without seeing her as Phoebe from 'Friends' But she plays an excellent role in this film. The plot is excellent, witty and sarcastic, cruel and sexy.
Not just for a gay audience, this film as something for everyone. -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Pretentious, out of date, just not very good
It was an ok, workable concept, but I feel the cast just couldn't work it.
Christina Ricci has to find a new acting skill besides being blase and snide -worked ONCE for the role of Wednesday in the Addams family but bit annoying after 10 years. The rest of the cast weren't particularly good either. Those were the worst homosexuals I've ever seen and Lisa Kudrow is Phoebe in absolutely everything she does! How on earth does she find work these days?
The script also annoyed me. It was just laden with one liners that didn't fit in. No flow or believability. -
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The Opposite Of Sex
Sixteen-year-old Deedee runs away from Louisiana to live with her half-brother Bill, an English teacher who happens to be gay. Lucia, Bill's sexually-repressed best friend, distrusts her. These suspicions are confirmed when Deedee lures Bill's boyfriend into bed and talks him into stealing $10,000 ...
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