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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.
- $10.5 million
- Edward Shearmur
- March 5, 1999
- Neal H. Moritz
Mar 5, 2019 · Playwright Roger Kumble finishes the script for Cruel Intentions, based on the 16th century novel series Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Choderlos De Laclos. He begins shopping it around the...
Cruel Intentions: Directed by Roger Kumble. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair. 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.
Kumble made his feature-film-directorial debut in 1999 with Sony Pictures' Cruel Intentions, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair. His screenplay transposed the French novel Dangerous Liaisons to modern New York.
- Film director, screenwriter
- 1994–present
- Mary Mehagian
- May 28, 1966 (age 57), Harrison, New York, U.S.
Mar 21, 2019 · The Beginnings. After watching 1996's coming-of-age black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse, playwright Roger Kumble felt inspired to pen a dark story centered on a young cast. So he took the...
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Phillippe was dating Reese Witherspoon at the time, and both Kumble and Phillippe convinced Witherspoon to star as Annette Hargrove. Witherspoon signed on under one condition: the...
Mar 22, 2019 · Roger Kumble's comment to EW show what a talent Reese Witherspoon has always been, and seems to tease her eventual role as a producer. The Oscar winner knows storytelling, and her point...
