Movie Information
Overall Rank: 9336
Average Rating: 2.4/4
# of Ratings: 37
Theatrical Release Date: 05/22/1998
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Roos
Actors: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott
Plot: Dedee Truitt is cynical, young and overtly sexual. After her step-father's death, she moves in with her gay half-brother, seduces his partner, becomes pregnant and generally ruins the life of whoever she runs into.
Quick Movie Reviews
Rating of
3.5/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 01/03/2021
Christina Ricci is a real spitfire in this unapologetic sex comedy with sizzling dialogue and refreshingly fleshed out characters.
Rating of
3.5/4
Jase - wrote on 01/27/2012
Christina Ricci is good in this, but it's Lisa Kudrow that really makes it worth watching for me. I've never seen her in a funnier role.
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2.5/4
Slightly better than other black comedies Ive seen
The M.O.W. - wrote on 08/02/2008
"Dedee Truitt" (Christina Ricci) is a manipulative 16-year-old who is pregnant. She takes us, through narration, on how she has manipulated men, including the gay lover (Ivan Sergei) of her half-brother (Martin Donovan), to get what she wants.
She convinces her half-brother's boyfriend that he is the father of the child, even though he really isn't. And the two runaway with each other, with the ashes of the half-brother's former lover who died of AIDS, which is the butt of some jokes from Ricci's character that didn't produce a laugh from me. They take the ashes in an attempt to extort some much needed money.
Now, "Bill", along with the uptight sister of his late lover, "Lucia" (Lisa Kudrow), follow the two to try to convince them to at least give them back the ashes if not come …
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