Cruel Intentions
1999
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Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American teen romantic drama film written and directed by Roger Kumble and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The film is a modern retelling of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, set in New York City among rich high schoolers.
Summaries. 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. Kathryn Merteuil and Sebastian Valmont are seductive, manipulative step-siblings who get what they want when they want it.
Annette (Reese Witherspoon) unwittingly becomes a pawn in Sebastian's (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) deliciously diabolical wager of sexual conquest when she writes an article in Seventeen Magazine about how she intends to stay pure until she marries her boyfriend.
Annette (Reese Witherspoon) unwittingly becomes a pawn in Sebastian's (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) deliciously diabolical wager...
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- Roger Kumble
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- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Mar 5, 1999 · A modern-day adaptation of "Dangerous Liaisons" with rich kids in a prep school playing amoral games of seduction and betrayal. The film is smart and merciless until the end, when it becomes soppy and moralistic.
Sarah Michelle Gellar (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, TV's Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Ryan Phillippe (I Know What You Did Last Summer, 54) sizzle as a pair of...
Watch the trailer of the 1999 drama romance film about two wealthy, manipulative step-siblings who make a wager of sexual conquest. The film stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair.
