The Opposite of Sex (1997)
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Don Roos
Cast: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett
Synopsis:
A proper little madam leaves her mother in Louisiana to prey on the good will of her half-brother, a gay schoolteacher in Indiana. She deceives him sexually, robs him, attempts to extort from him, kills the man she is in cahoots with, and finally brings an unloved child into the world. Meanwhile the teacher who is hopelessly fixated on him discovers sex with a policeman who is following them.
Review:
One ought to be able to say that the main character remains perversely endearing to the last (but she doesn't). For this is supposedly a movie about choices, and how one acts according to one's nature whatever society might have to say about it. At least one appears to do so in America. In fact the misanthropic monologue on the soundtrack quickly palls and most of the witty barbs stem from the Kudrow character's reactionary disillusionment.
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Don Roos
Cast: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett
Synopsis:
A proper little madam leaves her mother in Louisiana to prey on the good will of her half-brother, a gay schoolteacher in Indiana. She deceives him sexually, robs him, attempts to extort from him, kills the man she is in cahoots with, and finally brings an unloved child into the world. Meanwhile the teacher who is hopelessly fixated on him discovers sex with a policeman who is following them.
Review:
One ought to be able to say that the main character remains perversely endearing to the last (but she doesn't). For this is supposedly a movie about choices, and how one acts according to one's nature whatever society might have to say about it. At least one appears to do so in America. In fact the misanthropic monologue on the soundtrack quickly palls and most of the witty barbs stem from the Kudrow character's reactionary disillusionment.
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Don Roos
Cast: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett
Synopsis:
A proper little madam leaves her mother in Louisiana to prey on the good will of her half-brother, a gay schoolteacher in Indiana. She deceives him sexually, robs him, attempts to extort from him, kills the man she is in cahoots with, and finally brings an unloved child into the world. Meanwhile the teacher who is hopelessly fixated on him discovers sex with a policeman who is following them.
Review:
One ought to be able to say that the main character remains perversely endearing to the last (but she doesn't). For this is supposedly a movie about choices, and how one acts according to one's nature whatever society might have to say about it. At least one appears to do so in America. In fact the misanthropic monologue on the soundtrack quickly palls and most of the witty barbs stem from the Kudrow character's reactionary disillusionment.