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Actors: Ryan Philippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cruel Intentions |
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This movie has is about a dysfunctional family relationship between a stepbrother and stepsister. Sebastian the main character has a lustful desire towards his stepsister. Knowing this she uses it in her favor to make a bet including has prize car, an old model Roadster. Sebastian has no problem getting almost any girl he wants, the bet is that he will sleep with the new headmasters daughter. This challenge here is that she is a virgin, who recently wrote about her choice in a popular magazine. During the course of this bet, Sebastian begins to fall in love with this young woman.
During the course of this movie, there are many twists in the plot. His stepsister who is a well-respected woman ends up being found out as a cocaine addict. Sebastian's journal ends up being published to the entire school. Instead of being thought of as nothing more than a typical using male his image changes, and so does his stepsister's.
--Jennifer Sheets, Resident Scholar
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This story is about two older teenaged step-siblings, Katherine and Sebastian. They are left alone a lot in their mansion and enjoy leading people on. Sebastian is known as a womaniser, but he only chooses women as a conquest. He looks for challenges and uses them for revenge. Katherine is thought of very highly at school but it is all a lie. She puts on a fake front around people but hates them all.
The movie starts with Katherine speaking to a new girl Cecil and her mother about the school she goes to. Katherine promises Cecil's mother to take Cecil under her wing but is secretly plotting revenge against Cecil's boyfriend, who dumped Katherine for Cecil. Then Sebastian comes home with a magazine article called 'A Virgin's Manifesto' written by Annette. Sebastion reckons he can get Annette to lose her virginity to him so he can ruin her image as her father would be the new principal at Sebastian and Katherine's school.
Sebastian sets out to find Annette and has a hard time getting her to fall in love with him. But he succeeds and takes her virginity. During this he starts to feel for her as well so decides not to dump her. Katherine finds out and makes Sebastian think that loving Annette, he will lose his reputation so Sebastian breaks up with her. He wants to get back with her but Annette refuses to speak to him. Instead he leaves her his journal, which he writes everything in and no one has ever read, so she reads about the conquest of her virginity. But she also reads about how he fell in love with her.
--Laura B, Resident Scholar
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Katheryn (Gellar) makes a bet that step-brother Sebastian (phillipe) won't be able to bed the new headmater's innocent daughter Annette (witherspoon) before school starts. If she wins, she gets his jaguar roadster , if he wins, he gets Katheryn. But the plot thickens when Sebastian falls for Annette and the only thing that threathens to break their romance is the truth.
--Lez Jay Seckold, Resident Scholar
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Phillipe and Gellar play stepbrother and stepsister. Gellar bets Phillipe that he can't get self-proclaimed virgin Witherspoon to sleep with him.
--starcrossedlove, Resident Scholar
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A couple of rich kids make a bet about headmasters dotter who thinks that true love waits. Based on a classic by Choderlos De Laclos.
--Rita, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Cruel Intentions |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- dating someone for bet/gag
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- simply wealthy
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample chest and buttocks
unclothed?
- partially transparent clothes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- lesbians!
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
Is this movie based on a
- book
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