A hoot from start to finish. Don Roos has a real knack for fleshing out the foibles of contemporary sexual mores.
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03/02/02
The Opposite of Sex (1998)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:33
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett
Director: Don Roos
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Reviews for The Opposite of Sex
Beyond the narration and the homosexual element... a fairly typical 1990s indie sex comedy
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Hilarious and confident...the couples multiply, couplings turn into triangles, and the year’s most unlikely authorities separate love from mere, if avid, pastimes.
01/10/03
Wild, unflinching, and aggressively un-P.C. black comedy.
01/01/00
This politically incorrect comedy serves up murder, unwanted pregnancy, and other neuroses, all undercut by the acerbic asides of the Lolita-like protag (acidly played by Christina Ricci).
12/24/06
...most of the time the film succeeds only in emphasizing the distance between the characters on the screen and the people watching them in the theater.
10/29/02
For those who like their screen comedy tart, dry and savvy on the distaff side, The Opposite of Sex should be something of a godsend.
01/01/00
Good-hearted story.
01/01/00
Roos's first feature film as director is a snappy, satirical, and hip sitcom that tries hard not to be a sitcom.
01/01/00
A few poorly cast actors bring this one down a few notches.
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