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Cruel Intentions

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 37m
  •  (28)
  • 56

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  • 20th Anniversary Trailer

Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Roger Kumble

Producer:

Neal H. Moritz

Writer:

Choderlos de Laclos

Release Date:

Mar 5, 1999

Runtime:

1hr 37m

Synopsis

Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term.

Cast

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Ryan Phillippe
  • Reese Witherspoon
  • Selma Blair
  • Louise Fletcher
  • Joshua Jackson
  • Eric Mabius
  • Sean Patrick Thomas
  • Swoosie Kurtz
  • Christine Baranski

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Metacritic

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Based on 24 Critics
8.4

USER SCORE (428)

Universal acclaim based on 428 Reviews
20

It's not the trite talk that sends Cruel Intentions into a tailspin, it's the lightweight casting.

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Metacritic review by Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
80

The dirtiest-minded American movie in recent memory -- and an honestly corrupt entertaining picture is never anything to sneeze at.

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Charles Taylor
Salon
75

It crash-lands with an ending of soppy moralizing, but until the end, it's smart and merciless in the tradition of the original story.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
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Chicago Sun-Times
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