Christina Ricci, Ivan Sergei, Lisa Kudrow

Smart, tart comedy about a female delinquent who up-ends her gay half-brother's life and everyone else around her.

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Don Roos

Release Date: May 29, 1998

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DVD Release Date: November 17, 1998

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  • March 3, 2008
    An OK movie. Strange cast of actors - Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, etc. Christina's role uses sex to get what she wants, and she doesn't seem too picky with who. She sure turns everybody's life upsidedown. Will she grow up a little too?
  • August 15, 2007
    Intelligent script with many great one liners is marred somewhat by an intrusive knowingly post modern voiceover. Lisa Kudrow gets all the best lines as a cynical teacher.
  • July 11, 2007
    lisa kudrows best performance that i've seen. it's not really a comedy though. if so, it's extremely bland. for a flick that seems to centre around gay men it's ironic that the best acting comes from the women. it's got a few good one liners. it is worth the watch
  • June 2, 2007
    Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow are outstanding in this film. Although someone needed to tell the director that between Indiana and Canada, there are no mountain ranges.
  • May 11, 2007
    Man... Christina is awesome in this.
  • November 19, 2009
    very dumb movie.. will put u to sleep
  • July 14, 2009
    I've seen this movie a few times. I still like it.
  • July 9, 2009
    16-year-old Dede (Christina Ricci) moves in with her gay half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan) and his boyfriend Matt (Ivan Sergei). After awhile Dede seduce Matt, gets pregnant and disappears with him. "The Opposite Of Sex" is a pretty good dark comedy drama, even if the storyline ...( read more)goes all over the place and the soundtrack is not that good. Still Christina Ricci is great (she always is) as the very unlikeable character she is playing and the movie is worth watching...
  • July 4, 2009
    One of the few mainstream "gay" movies that I could appreciate, and one of the few things that I felt Lisa Kudrow was good in.
  • June 25, 2009
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