Cruel Intentions (1999)

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6.6	Rating (1917 ratings)
6.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Roger Kumble

Starring (View all)

Sarah Michelle Gellar
Kathryn Merteuil

Ryan Phillippe
Sebastian Valmont

Reese Witherspoon
Annette Hargrove

Selma Blair
Cecile Caldwell

Louise Fletcher
Helen Rosemond

Joshua Jackson
Blaine Tuttle

Eric Mabius
Greg McConnell

Sean Patrick Thomas
Ronald Clifford

Written by

Choderlos de Laclos

Roger Kumble
(screenplay)

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Love it!

18 years, 6 months ago at Oct 3 17:20

Asho

2 votes

I absolutely love this movie.

I love the dialogue.
I love the way it's shot.
I love the music.
I love the plot.
I love the characters.
I love the characters' growth.
I love the plot development.
I love the ending.
I love the end titles.

This is a beautiful movie, with beautiful locations, beautiful people, and be... read more

Nice Version

17 years, 10 months ago at Jun 11 5:31

nataliegoes

2 votes

I like this updated version of Dangerous Liaisons. Geller and Phillippe are delicious as the bad duo, and their chemistry is excellent. I have a little trouble with the way Phillippe's and Witherspoon's characters react to each other in the beginning, but that resolves nicely by the end. But the slapstick of Miss Blair's character never fits in with the rest of the movie. This movie does one of... read more

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14 years, 1 month ago at Feb 28 18:24

Bambie

2 votes

What can I say, soundtrack was good but the whole movie was so full of chiches! I kinda liked Kathryn's character, but I guess that was the only thing I liked in this movie.

Why in the hell this has two sequels?

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Description: Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar play bickering step-siblings who, together, quietly control much of the social lives of the students in an affluent NY prep school. Phillippe's Sebastian sees himself as a kind of Don Juan, who always gets his woman, while Gellar's Katherine would rather enact revenge on ex-flames and corrupt incoming freshmen. One day, Kathryn and Sebastian, driven by a mutual lust for each other and a love of messing with innocent young people's lives, hatch a nefarious plan, and place a kind of bet. Sebastian is to woo and bed the daughter of the new headmaster (Reese Witherspoon, playing a very adaman ... (more)

Release date: 5 March 1999
UPC: 043396048270

Tags: Drama (40), Romance (31), Thriller (21), Teen (18), 1999 (15), Drugs (11), Revenge (11), 1990s (11), (10), Remake (7), Based On A Book (6), School (5), Cruelty (4), Teenagers (4), Adaptation (3), Manipulation (3), Virgin (3), Based On Book (3)

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" Or more appropriately, cruel rich teenagers, doing cruel things to people, for the sake of cruelty. Based on the story, “ Les Liaisons Dangereuses” by Christopher Hampton, and later turned into the films, Dangerous Liaisons and Valmont, it’s a film about two step siblings, who make a bet. The bet, being who can corrupt and seduce someone else, first and the most easiest. Unexpectedly, Sebastian, falls in love with his conquest, Annette. Which ends up, complicating things. Some took is"