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Sexe et autres complications

Original title: The Opposite of Sex
  • 1998
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
22K
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Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Ivan Sergei, Lyle Lovett, and Johnny Galecki in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
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A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

  • Director
    • Don Roos
  • Writer
    • Don Roos
  • Stars
    • Christina Ricci
    • Martin Donovan
    • Lisa Kudrow
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    22K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Don Roos
    • Writer
      • Don Roos
    • Stars
      • Christina Ricci
      • Martin Donovan
      • Lisa Kudrow
    • 187User reviews
    • 48Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 14 wins & 24 nominations

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    Lisa Kudrow and Martin Donovan in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
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    Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Ivan Sergei, Lyle Lovett, and Johnny Galecki in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Ivan Sergei, Lyle Lovett, and Johnny Galecki in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Christina Ricci in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Christina Ricci in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Lisa Kudrow and Martin Donovan in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Ivan Sergei in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Christina Ricci in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow in Sexe et autres complications (1998)
    Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Ivan Sergei, Lyle Lovett, and Johnny Galecki in Sexe et autres complications (1998)

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    Christina Ricci
    Christina Ricci
    • Dedee Truitt
    Martin Donovan
    Martin Donovan
    • Bill Truitt
    Lisa Kudrow
    Lisa Kudrow
    • Lucia DeLury
    Lyle Lovett
    Lyle Lovett
    • Sheriff Carl Tippett
    Johnny Galecki
    Johnny Galecki
    • Jason Bock
    William Lee Scott
    William Lee Scott
    • Randy Cates
    Ivan Sergei
    Ivan Sergei
    • Matt Mateo
    Megan Blake
    Megan Blake
    • Bobette
    Colin Ferguson
    Colin Ferguson
    • Tom DeLury
    Dan Bucatinsky
    Dan Bucatinsky
    • Timothy
    Chauncey Leopardi
    Chauncey Leopardi
    • Joe
    Rodney Eastman
    Rodney Eastman
    • Ty
    Heather Fairfield
    Heather Fairfield
    • Jennifer Oakes
    Amy Atkins
    • TV Reporter
    Leslie Grossman
    Leslie Grossman
    • Girl Student
    Emily Newman
    • Marcia Delury
    Harrison Young
    Harrison Young
    • Medical Examiner
    Pancho Demmings
    Pancho Demmings
    • Police Officer
    • Director
      • Don Roos
    • Writer
      • Don Roos
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The cabin in Ontario, Big Bear Lake is the same filming location as Dr. Falken's house in WarGames (1983).
    • Goofs
      When Lucia (Lisa Kudrow) is following Jason and Martin into Canada, her map shows they are crossing at Windsor Ontario, but the next scene shows the border crossing in a rural setting. The crossing at Windsor is a 24 lane bridge crossing.
    • Quotes

      Bill Truitt: [pulling on Jason's pierced nipple] Listen to me, you little grunge faggot. I survived my family, my schoolyard, every Republican, every other Democrat, Anita Bryant, the Pope, the fucking Christian Coalition, not to mention a real son of a bitch of a virus, in case you haven't noticed. In all that time since Paul Lynde and Truman Capote were the only fairies in America, I've been busting my ass so that you'd be able to do what you wanted with yours! So I don't just want your obedience right now - which I do want and plenty of it - but I want your fucking gratitude, right fucking now, or you're going to be looking down a long road at your nipple in the dirt! Do you hear what I'm saying?

    • Crazy credits
      No minor was used to portray any sexually explicit conduct.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Truman Show/The Last Days of Disco/A Perfect Murder/The Opposite of Sex/Hope Floats (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Lookin' For Love
      Written by Hank Hunter and Stan Vincent (as Steven Vincent)

      Performed by Jeanie Stahl

      Produced and Arranged by Mason Daring

      Very Special Thanks to Windsept Pacific and Lysa Grande

    User reviews187

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    Featured review
    Opposite of a Movie
    I admit, I readily get caught in movies, even the most incompetent ones. I laugh and more importantly I cry when I'm supposed to. I am a sucker. In fact, I have laughed and cried with Roos' other projects, swept along as per design.

    But this movie is different, and it pushed past the ordinary barriers I establish for movie life, barriers I didn't even know were there.

    Here's the setup: we have a movie, with love and events and discovery just like any other movie. There actually are characters and some pithy engagement among them and with us. But thats only the excuse for the filmmaker to have a completely separate dialog with us. The movie is the excuse for that dialog, though sometimes the higher level of engagement between us and Roos will borrow from the story.

    He is, in fact, having a sort of sex with us at the same time he tells us its the opposite, a different sort of attraction and seduction.

    Roos' surrogate is Ricci in voice-over narration. It is the very best she has been, except for that bowling alley scene in "Buffalo." Since she isn't a great acting talent, what this means is that the role is a perfect fit for her sort of sexual detachment.

    The narration starts out commenting on the movie, telling us what kind of movie this is not, and how we cannot expect her to behave as if she were in a movie. She leaves home and steals a gun. While doing so, she tells us to pay attention, that the gun will prove significant. Then, she deliciously shifts back into character and says that's foreshadowing and we studied that in school.

    This is pretty shocking stuff, this shift out of the movie, using moviedom's most intimate trick, the internal noir narrative that starts such films. We immediately have a bond with this girl, but in her role outside the movie. As the movie rolls on, she bonds intimately with many characters, and each is an opportunity for us to readjust the relationship we have with her outside.

    It is sex, no it is the opposite of sex, at least movie sex. But it is attraction as strong. And when it goes wrong, as it must, it is devastating. We know how to have movie sex, but few of us seem to have any dexterity with these things outside of movies.

    And that's the point. I guess we can thank Hal Hartley from paving the way for this.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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    • tedg
    • Jan 30, 2006

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 7, 1998 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Opposite of Sex
    • Filming locations
      • Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA(lodge in Canada where Dedee flees to with Matt and Jason)
    • Production company
      • Rysher Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $5,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $5,881,367
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $102,385
      • May 25, 1998
    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,881,367
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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