In an adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel, Les
Liaisons Dangereuses, Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian
Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are step-brother and step-sister living in
Manhattan. With their absent parents travelling in Europe, the wealthy pair
have the family penthouse to themselves as they while away their summer
break before beginning senior year at a private high school. Sebastian,
bad-boy lothario, has apparently slept with all the girls in town and
appears numb to it all. Kathryn, who appears to be the good girl class
president, is actually far more amoral and malicious than Sebastian, but
maintains appearances to the contrary. When she is dumped by her boyfriend,
Court Reynolds (Charlie O'Connell), for the innocent Cecile Caldwell (Selma
Blair), she schemes revenge by destroying Cecile's reputation. She
challenges Sebastian to deflower Cecile and transform her into a tramp to
humiliate Court. Sebastian isn't as interested as Cecile -- she's spent her
whole life in a Catholic girl's school and presents no challenge. The girl
who has caught his attention is Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon), the
new headmaster's daughter. Annette had written an article for Seventeen
Magazine on her plans to stay a virgin until she finds her one true love.
Kathryn makes a wager. If Sebastian fails to lure Annette into bed before
the summer is over, Kathryn gets his car. If he succeeds, Sebastian gets
Kathryn, whom he wants anyway. Sebastian accepts the bet, but Annette turns
out to be more than either of them bargained for.
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Cast
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
Swoosie Kurtz ... Dr. Greenbaum
Christine Baranski ... Bunny Caldwell
Entire castlist @
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Cecile
Caldwell
A nervous, awkward girl experiencing her "sexual awakening".
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Selma
says
"I think I had gone on like, 60 auditions and not gotten anything. I’d done
a movie with Dominique Swain called Girl, and I was playing 12
years old in everything. I had done a couple of small films, like a tiny
short film with Josh Hartnett (before he did many other movies), and that
was my whole film experience. I went in for Cruel Intentions
and he said “Hey, how old are you?” and I said “Fuck you, how old are you?”
It broke the air, I just didn’t care anymore. I just didn’t believe that
anyone would ever give me a job. I had lost all desperation. Luckily, he
thought that was funny. I went in trying to play this sweet innocent girl
Cecile, and I think I was kind of pretending to be 15 or something to Roger.
He was amused by it, it was just so ridiculous. We fell in love. I love
Roger, I owe him my career."
+ Reviews
Received
56 metascore out of 100 based on 24 reviews @
Metacritic.com
Overall grade breakdown: A's: 141 16.2%
B's: 348 40.0%
Newsweek
TV Guide
Washington Post
More @
Rotten Tomatoes
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DVD Info
Released:
27th
August
1999
Available in DVD
Standard Edt & Collectors Edt. Rated R.
Bonus
Material
Collectors Edt
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6 Deleted Scenes
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Creative Intensions: Finding a Visual Style Featurette
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Creative Intentions: Finding a Visual Style
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Deleted Scenes
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Filmmakers' Audio Commentary
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Making-Of Featurette
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Marcy Playground "Coming Up From Behind" Music Video
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Music Videos by Placebo & Marcy Playground
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Placebo "Every You Every Me" Music Video
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Production Notes
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Talent & Filmographies
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Theatrical Trailer
Bonus
Material
Standard Edt
- 'Making-of' Featurette
- Six Deleted Scenes with the Director's
Introduction
- Filmmaker's Audio Commentary
- Talent and Filmographies
- 'Every You, Every Me' Placebo Music Video
- 'Coming Up From Behind' Marcy Playground
Music Video
More info?
+ Money
talks
Domestic Total
Gross: $38,328,567
Foreign Total Gross: $37,573,641
Opening Weekend: $13,020,565
Widest Release: 2,312 theaters
Production Budget:
$10.5 million
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Box Office Mojo
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Awards & Nominations
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1999 Film - Choice Drama - Teen Choice Award - Teen Choice Awards
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2000 Trashiest - MTV Movie Award - MTV Movie Awards
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2000 Best Kiss (Selma & Gellar) - MTV Movie Award - MTV Movie
Awards
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2000 Best
Original Score - Golden Slate Award - Csapnivalo Awards
- 1999 Soundtrack of the Year Nomination - Teen Choice Award -
Teen Choice Awards
- 2000 Best Movie Nomination - Golden Slate - Csapnivalo Awards
- 2000 Best Movie Soundtrack Nomination - Golden Slate -
Csapnivalo Awards
- 2000 Best Teen Movie Nomination - Golden Slate - Csapnivalo
Awards
- 2000 Breakthrough Female Performance (Blair) MTV Movie Award -
MTV Movie Awards
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Links
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