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Cruel Intentions (1999)
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This modern-day teen update of Les Liaisons Dangereuses suffered at the hands of both critics and moviegoers thanks to its sumptuous ad campaign, which hyped the film as an arch, highly sexual, faux-serious drama (not unlike the successful, Oscar-nominated Dangerous Liaisons). In fact, this intermittently successful sudser plays like high comedy for its first two-thirds, as its two evil heroes, rich stepsiblings Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe), blithely ruin lives and reputations with hearts as black as coal. Kathryn wants revenge on a boyfriend who dumped her, so she befriends his new intended,...
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Cruel Intentions Movie Review by Zara  (3/6/2007) |
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A Dangerous Liaisons for the teen crowd, this was the movie where Ryan first seduced Reese. Too bad she couldn't see the inevitiable coming in real life.
Basically, a brother and step-sister make a bet that he, the playboy of their high school, can turn out the good virginal girl. Luckily the girl isn't a complete...
(complete Cruel Intentions review by Zara)
| Cruel Intentions Movie Review by Jesse (6/26/2007) |
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Wow. I just fell in love with this movie. Strange I know... it's not my type of movie, but I couldn't resist. It's very seductive, very evil, very sexy... it's just an all-around pleasure to watch. Roger Kumble does a terrific job in adapting Choderlos de Laclos' brilliant novel "Les liaisons dangereuses" to the screen in...
(complete Cruel Intentions review by Jesse)
Brothers and sisters...when will they ever stop having sex? Okay, so they are step-siblings, but still the relationship between Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar is just plain creepy.
This is the film that introduced a young Reese Witherspoon to a young Phillippe, where love would soon spring eternal...until he...
(complete Cruel Intentions review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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