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Starring:
Simon Baker, Winona Ryder, Leslie Bibb, Tanc Sade, Patton Oswalt, Dash Mihok, Neil Flynn, Thom Bishops, Sophie Monk, Marshall Bell, Rob Benedict, Julie Bowen, Frances Fisher, Natassia Malthe, Indira Varma, Cindy Pickett, Jessica Kiper, Amanda Walsh, Christopher Stapleton, Lauren Hill, Nicole Bilderback, David Bortolucci, Zachary Gordon, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Ashley McCarthy, Jonas Neal, Retta, Bryan Ross, Greg Travis, Patrick Holland, Tony Nowicki, Mindy Cohn, Corinne Reilly, Pollyanna McIntosh, David Magidoff, Candice Coke, Winter Ave Zoli, Siobhan Flynn, William Caploe, Ingrid Coree, Cate Ferguson, Bryan Fuller, Aaron Geller, Marcus Alexander Hart, Marshall McClean, Cean Okada, Skyler James Sandak, Elisha Skorman, Heather Tocquigny, Yara Brighton, Vitaliy Versace
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Daniel Waters
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Daniel Waters
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Sex and Death 101 (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
August 24th, 2008
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Interesting if sometimes disturbing little movie about a man who is sent an email which gives the list of women that he's slept with in his lifetime. The only problem is that when he first receives the email, he's only at number 29 and the list goes up to 101. And yes, it is a little cliche that the number and the title of the film coincide.
Simon Baker might have possibly been the only actor to plausibly pull this role off without coming off as a completely smarmy a**hole. The character is so detached from the sexual encounters that he barrels head first into (the first of which happens at his bachelor party, as when the movie starts, he's supposed to be "settling down" and getting married) that you can't root for or sympathize with him at all. In fact, if anything, you're more prone to loathe him.
Which brings into play the alternative side of the movie's plot. A woman (Ryder) operating under the pseudonym of Death Nell is putting the slime ball men of the world in their places, luring them into sex and then administering a drug which puts them (aside from one unfortunate victim, who meets his death in her presence but not at her hand) into a coma.
Where the parallels seem hard to place, they're there. And while I didn't appreciate the sappy ending the movie earlier promises us won't occur, I liked the film as a whole in its statement on the importance (and consequential lack of) sex, intimacy and commitment. I also can't ignore that it's one of the few films lately that's tried to be an original, so extra props for that.
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