The Opposite of Sex (1998)

I love this movie so much

You won't be disappointed!

So much average

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

A teenager (Christina Ricci) runs off with, and becomes pregnant by, her gay brother's lover (Ivan Sergei). The film marked departures for both Ricci and Lisa Kudrow, cast against type for the roles they were known for at the time.The Opposite Of Sex is a savagely funny attack on modern American mores and viewer preconceptions alike that provides a field day for actors who delight in spitting out barbed, adult dialogue; though the whole is drenched in irony, everybody works hard to ensure the emotional and (briefly) physical violence hurts, and indeed that we care how this unlikely scenario unfolds.

Christina Ricci plays a brunette Lolita in this charming indie comedy from 1998. She visits her brother, straight-laced Martin Donovan, and then proceeds to seduce and confuse his hunky boy-toy, played by Ivan Sergei.The film is no big deal, but it made a fairly large impression on me back in 1998. Ricci gives a terrific performance, successfully navigating the transition from childhood to adult actor. But the highest praise must go to Lisa Kudrow, who broke out of her "Friends" character and actually generated a little bit of deserved Oscar buzz for her performance as an uptight prude.Grade: A

This film is about a disturbed teenage girl wrecking up everyone's lives around her.The plot portrays Dedee's antisocial and unstable behaviour well. Dedee's character is developed so well that it is easy for people to dislike her. Christina Ricci's performance is great as usual. Lisa Kudrow is also good in her role as Bill's supportive best friend. There are indeed laughs as well, there are many jokes that work in the film. The "Mr I will pull out" joke really got me laughing! The hospital scene towards the is touching and affecting. That scene is the only time Dedee means what she says, and she says it with much sincerity and emotion. Great film, I recommend it!

Brazen teenage girl leaves an unhappy home to live with her gay half-brother, but she ends up seducing her brother's chiseled-but-naive lover--convincing him that she's carrying his child. Over-stuffed, acid-tongued comedy-of-ills is chockful of unlikable people. Credit director Don Roos for going full-throttle with such chancy material, yet the edges of this brittle script are rather limp; the movie is either amusingly bitchy or offensively boring, with joke-gimmicks that don't work and a strident narrative pitched way too high. Lisa Kudrow is the sole bright spot playing a friend of the family. In the lead, unremarkable Christina Ricci turns up her urchin chin at the camera and squints her eyes in seductive thought, but she's trying too hard to be sexy--she's pouty, but hardly a Lolita. ** from ****