On Rotten Tomatoes, 81% of 42 critics gave the film a positive review. I hate people who talk during movies, but if she were sitting behind me in the theater, saying all of this stuff, I'd want her to keep right on talking. The Dede character subverts those expectations she shoots the legs out from under the movie with perfectly timed zingers. When you've seen enough movies, alas, you can sense the gears laboriously turning, and you know with a sinking heart that there will be no surprises. ![]() Roger Ebert especially enjoyed the voice-over narration supplied in-character by Ricci, calling it "refreshing" and comparing it to Mystery Science Theater 3000: Christina Ricci's performance was widely praised and she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Janet Maslin in The New York Times called it a "gleefully acerbic comedy". The opening weekend saw a per screen average of $20,477 for the 5 theaters showing it. Reception įor its North American run, The Opposite of Sex took in film rentals of $5,881,367. Sony's arthouse division Sony Pictures Classics distributed the film. It was to end up being the last theatrical work produced by Rysher Entertainment, who shut down their film unit the same month that shooting wrapped. The Opposite of Sex was shot from June 1997 to July 1997 in Los Angeles, California. At the end of the film, the vignettes of the various caring relationships among the characters show the opposite of superficial sexual gratification. Eventually, Dedee decides that her son would be better off with Bill, who is now dating Dedee's parole officer.ĭedee sarcastically concludes that sex is precisely the opposite of what people should want, leading as it does to kids, disease or, worst of all, relationships. After a few months, she moves back in with him, while Matt goes traveling, and Lucia gives birth to her own child. After giving birth to her son, Dedee returns Tom's ashes to him, apologizing for her actions in the past year.ĭedee ends up serving time in prison, leaving her son in Bill's care while she's incarcerated. She goes into labor and Bill accompanies her into the delivery room. Lucia later discovers that she is pregnant.īill eventually tracks down Matt and Dedee. ![]() Despondent, she has a one-night stand with Sheriff Carl Tippett ( Lyle Lovett) who had previously made unsuccessful romantic overtures to her. ![]() Lucia and Bill have a falling out after she implies that Tom died as a result of having gay sex. They escape but soon get into an argument that leads to Dedee's accidentally shooting Randy. Randy also finds her they inform Matt that they are taking the ashes and moving away. They elope, leaving Bill and Lucia to track them down.īill and Lucia find Dedee and Matt in Los Angeles, only to discover Dedee has stolen Tom's ashes and is holding them for ransom. Bill maintains a friendship with Tom's younger sister, Lucia ( Lisa Kudrow), who idolized her brother.ĭedee seduces Matt, then tricks him into believing he has impregnated her. Not revealing her pregnancy, Dedee eventually moves in with her much older half-brother Bill ( Martin Donovan), a gay teacher in a conservative, suburban community in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.Īlthough he is living with Matt ( Ivan Sergei), Bill still mourns the loss of his previous partner, Tom, who died of AIDS some time ago. She is pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, Randy Cates ( William Lee Scott). Sixteen-year-old Dedee Truitt ( Christina Ricci) runs away from home.
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