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Cruel Intentions |  | Director: Roger Kumble
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Louise Fletcher
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  490 reviews
Sales Rank: 2078
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 043396048270
ISBN: 0767835107
UPC: 043396048270
EAN: 9780767835107
ASIN: B00001PE4D
Theatrical Release Date: March 5, 1999
Release Date: August 3, 1999
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Product Description
A pair of sexy siblings seduce and ruin the reputation of an unsuspecting classmate. Kathryn then challenges her stepbrother to deflower the headmaste
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This modern-day teen update of Les Liaisons Dangereuses suffered at the hands of both critics and moviegoers thanks to its sumptuous ad campaign, which hyped the film as an arch, highly sexual, faux-serious drama (not unlike the successful, Oscar-nominated Dangerous Liaisons). In fact, this intermittently successful sudser plays like high comedy for its first two-thirds, as its two evil heroes, rich stepsiblings Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe), blithely ruin lives and reputations with hearts as black as coal. Kathryn wants revenge on a boyfriend who dumped her, so she befriends his new intended, the gawky Cecile (Selma Blair), and gets Sebastian to deflower the innocent virgin. The meat of the game, though, lies in Sebastian's seduction of good girl Annette (a down-to-earth Reese Witherspoon), who's written a nationally published essay entitled "Why I Choose to Wait." If he fails, Kathryn gets his precious vintage convertible; if he wins, he gets Kathryn--in the sack. When the movie sticks to the merry ruination of Kathryn and Sebastian's pawns, it's highly enjoyable: Gellar in particular is a two-faced manipulator extraordinaire, and Phillippe, usually a black hole, manages some fun as a hipster Eurotrash stud. Most pleasantly surprising of all is Witherspoon, who puts a remarkably self-assured spin on a character usually considered vulnerable and tortured (see Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Liaisons). Unfortunately, writer-director Roger Kumble undermines everything he's built up with a false ending that's true to neither the reconceived characters nor the original story--revenge is a dish best served cold, not cooked up with unnecessary plot twists. --Mark Englehart
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 Problem January 25, 2010
Cardholder (Kentucky USA)
it was in very good condition, but there was no case for it like the other DVD's I have ordered from Amazon.
It cam in a paper sleeve, which adds no protection a case would have.
I don't recommend buying from this person.
This film is spicy! January 5, 2010
Andrew Ellington (I'm kind of everywhere)
One of those rare films that never seems to get tiring for me, `Cruel Intentions' may not be perfect, but it surely is entertaining. Laced with material that is in one instance shocking and controversial and in the next uproarious, this is not a film for everyone but it is a film that has something `for' everyone in it.
Couple that with the fact that Ryan and Reese are just SOOO cute together.
The film (which is based off of the film `Dangerous Liaisons') centers around step-siblings Sebastian and Kathryn. The two basically run their upscale school with intensity that is unmatched. The two toy with fellow students to satisfy their own need for attention (although this film is far from focused on the emotional turmoil causing these sadistic games) and so when the young and proud virgin Annette moves in they instantly gravitate towards `toying' with her life. Kathryn, who has denied Sebastian access to her loins, makes him a deal. If he can compromise Annette's moral standing then Kathryn will grant him said access, but if he fails in his mission then Kathryn gets Sebastian's prized car.
Simple enough, until Sebastian falls in love.
Complaints have been made with the altered ending (which shifts the comical and devilish tone of the film almost drastically, and suddenly) but I personally adored that aspect of the film. I loved the playfulness of the first two thirds, but I also found it rather reminiscent of almost every other teen-comedy that was being released at the time (the late 90's was a goldmine, or landfill, for teen-comedies). The sincerity (and yes, it was sincere) of the final third was a nice surprise, even if it seems a tad uneven. The chemistry between Reese and Ryan was so organic (and that love scene is so amazingly tender and pure) and the genuine crushing waves of the eventuality of it all added a nice and unexpected touch to the film.
Yes, it is uneven and it does contrast the original film, but this is NOT `Dangerous Liaisons'.
Oh yeah, and Sarah Michelle Geller is just drool-worthy brilliant here with the right amount of charm, sex-appeal, cattiness and pure watchability. You cannot take your eyes off of her!
Cruel Intentions November 24, 2009
Catherine A. Mckinney
I loved this movie in High School and I still love it today. On Blu-ray absolutely everything looks great. And of course it is always fun to see Sarah Michelle Gellar and Joshua Jackson (that's right, he is in this!) out of their usual roles. Love it!
 "A Cat and Mouse Game!" September 9, 2009
Terry Richard (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
"Cruel Intentions" is a delicious cat and mouse game between two teenagers living the high life on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The movie depicts how two step-siblings play mental games with one another with the intention of destroying the other. I have to admit this is a fun movie because it's always neat to watch those that are rich who have nothing to do but to destroy people's lives. The movie is well-known for the excellent acting by its leads. Sarah Michelle Gellar (from TV's "All My Children" and the "Buffy" series) and Ryan Phillippe star as the dastardly duo. The bet the two make is that if Sebastian (Phillippe) beds the headmistress' daughter of the school that Kathryn (Geller) attends, Sebastian can then bed Kathryn. If not Kathryn gets Sebastian's most prized toy. The headmistress' daughter is played by future Oscar winner and wife of Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon. The DVD comes with a collectable booklet and a ton of bonuses including 6 deleted scenes, audio commenatary, music videos, and trailer, plus much more. Subtitles are in english and language is 5.1 Dolby Digital. There are also two fantastic sequels to this film called "Cruel Intentions 2" and "Cruel Intentions 3" that are just as good as the original. NBC News says the film is "a wild, daring new spin on the classic tale of love and betrayal".
 Strictly for the uninitiated August 27, 2009
wolfgang731
If you're familiar, even in passing, with Christopher's Hampton's stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses (based on the 18th century novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) or its subsequent (and very popular) film incarnation, Dangerous Liaisons starring the insanely brilliant Glenn Close as the black hearted Marquise de Merteuil and, in my lonely opinion, the miscast, if compelling, John Malkovich as the lascivious and callous bon-vivant, Vicomte de Valmont than you can easily forego seeing this rather inept and not surprisingly insipid modernization and blithely go about your business. Something has definitely been lost in translation and it extends far beyond period costumes and Bach's keyboard concertos. Though a teenager's ability to descend the depths of cruelty is well known and documented, rarely is it of the sophisticated and viciously calculated variety, such as is the case here. Furthermore, we're not dealing with pawns that live within the sheltered environs and cloistered walls of 18th century France, but rather modern adolescents living rather privileged existences in one of the world's most modern and sophisticated cities, New York. They're hardly as gullible as pious 15 year old girls reared in convents. Pulling the wool over their collective eyes is going to take considerable effort not to mention near Machiavellian craftiness. In this retelling, both the plot and characters reek of artifice and you don't know whether to laugh or take the film seriously. It has nothing to do with the performances but rather with everything leading up to them, primarily a script that aches to be modern, yet is often times burdened with some stilted and archaic dialogue as if it's trying to hearken back to and somehow channel its original source. I mean, how many 16 year olds nowadays do you know of that write actual letters? I don't mean emails or text messages, I mean physical letters? In short, the film, more often than not, suffers from an identity crisis. The actors were more than decent and they did their best considering the material they were given and the soundtrack isn't at all bad, either. In closing, the movie is hardly dreadful and it can be rather entertaining but, again, if you're familiar with the 1988 Stephen Frears' film or to a lesser extent Milos Forman's Valmont of a few years later, you'll find yourself squinting through Cruel Intentions, vainly and understandably searching for remnants of either film and their respective characters and will be left feeling somewhat frustrated by the exercise.
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