Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions
by Roger Kumble

Cruel Intentions
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Actor: Louise Fletcher, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Selma Blair
Director: Roger Kumble
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
Writer: Roger Kumble
Producer: Bruce Mellon
Producer: Christopher Ball
Producer: Heather Zeegen
Producer: Michael Fottrell
Producer: Neal H. Moritz
Writer: Choderlos de Laclos
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Cruel Intentions

Movie Review: Cruel Intentions
Summary: 4 Stars

I loved this movie in High School and I still love it today. On Blu-ray absolutely everything looks great. And of course it is always fun to see Sarah Michelle Gellar and Joshua Jackson (that's right, he is in this!) out of their usual roles. Love it!

Summary of Cruel Intentions

A STEAMY, STYLISH LOOK AT MANHATTAN'S POSH YOUTH AND THEIRWANTON GAMES AND SEXUAL MANIPULATION. COMMENTARY BY DIRECTORROGER KUMBLE, FEATURETTE, AND TWO MUSIC VIDEOS.
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, the gawky Cecile (Selma Blair), and gets Sebastian to deflower the innocent virgin. The meat of the game, though, lies in Sebastian's seduction of good girl Annette (a down-to-earth Reese Witherspoon), who's written a nationally published essay entitled "Why I Choose to Wait." If he fails, Kathryn gets his precious vintage convertible; if he wins, he gets Kathryn--in the sack. When the movie sticks to the merry ruination of Kathryn and Sebastian's pawns, it's highly enjoyable: Gellar in particular is a two-faced manipulator extraordinaire, and Phillippe, usually a black hole, manages some fun as a hipster Eurotrash stud. Most pleasantly surprising of all is Witherspoon, who puts a remarkably self-assured spin on a character usually considered vulnerable and tortured (see Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Liaisons). Unfortunately, writer-director Roger Kumble undermines everything he's built up with a false ending that's true to neither the reconceived characters nor the original story--revenge is a dish best served cold, not cooked up with unnecessary plot twists. --Mark Englehart

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