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105 min | USA | 35 mm
critics' choice
credits
PROD: Michael Besman, David Kirkpatrick, Rysher Entertainment
SALES: Columbia Pictures
SCENARIO: Don Roos
CAMERA: Hubert Taczanowski
EDITOR: David Codron
ARTDIR: Michael Clausen
SOUND: Jon Ailetcher
MUSIC: Mason Daring
CAST: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott, Ivan Sergei
screenings
30 saturday 19:30 Luxor
31 sunday 09:45 Venster 1
06 saturday 22:15 Luxor
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'The performance of the year in the film of the year', is what Sight & Sound wrote about Cristina Ricci, seventeen during shooting, in her role as Deedee Pruitt in The Opposite of Sex. The directing d�but of Don Roos, who earlier wrote the screenplays for Single White Female and Boys on the Side, goes a lot further in examining the other side of love. All forms of affection take the rap in the devastating observations of the cynical teenage monster, a cross between Lolita and Dr. Strangelove. Roos, self-proclaimed gay, has Deedee the Terrible wipe the floor with politically-correct opinions. Both hypocritical Christian American morality and the victim role of gays striving for social acceptance are on the receiving end of this pitch-black comedy, full of deliberately tasteless jokes about piercings, the charms of minors and the urn of an AIDS victim.
Don Roos
Don Roos (1955, New York), after a training in scriptwriting, worked as a writer and producer for television. In 1986 he wrote the script for the film Love Field. That was followed by screenplays for Single White Female, Boys on the Side and Diabolique. The Opposite of Sex is his directing d�but.
films
Films: The Opposite of Sex (1998)
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