SnoopyStyle Dedee Truitt (Christina Ricci) is a 16 year old from Creve Coeur, Louisiana. She runs away to her gay half-brother high school teacher Bill Truitt (Martin Donovan). He's living with his foolish boyfriend Matt Mateo (Ivan Sergei). She has everyone wrapped around her little finger except Bill's stuck-up friend Lucia DeLury (Lisa Kudrow) who is the sister of Bill's dead ex-lover Tom. Dedee is manipulative and outrageously inappropriate. She seduces Matt, claims Matt is the father of her unborn child, steal $10k from Bill, and runs away to L.A. Matt's other boyfriend Jason Bock (Johnny Galecki) wants Matt back and maliciously lies to Sheriff Carl Tippett (Lyle Lovett) about being molested when he was Bill's student. That's when things start to turn crazy.Dedee is selfish and morally corrupt. And she's played with biting wit by Ricci. She gives a running inner monologue and that is even worst than her inappropriate comments. Everybody is running around orbiting this little tart. The only reasonable person seems to be Lucia but she may be the most troubled of all. She's been hopelessly pining for a gay guy while ignoring an admirer. Lisa Kudrow is just as effective performing the polar opposite personality. She is just as funny in her frustration with Bill.

Salazar The Opposite of Sex is a black comedy. Black comedy is an acquired taste; you either hate it or love it, there's no in between. With that said, I love this movie. Granted that I can see why many people don't like this movie, I would still recommend The Opposite of Sex as well worth taking a look.The Opposite of Sex is about Dedee Truitt (an exquisite performance by the ever-talented Christina Ricci) a precocious, cynical, sharp-tongued, foul-mouthed and manipulative teen temptress who, after flicking her cigarette and smashing her chair onto her stepfather's coffin at his funeral, runs away from home to move in with her gay half-brother, Bill (Martin Donovan) and his sexy young lover, Matt (Ivan Sergei). Dedee seduces Matt and only after she has sex with him does Dedee reveal that she is pregnant. Things get very complicated very quickly as Dedee convinces Matt to run away with her yet again along with Bill's money and the ashes of his dead lover, only to dump Matt for Randy Cates (William Lee Scott), Dedee's psychotic ex-boyfriend, all the while Jason Bock (Johnny Galecki), a former high school student and Matt's other boyfriend, accuses Bill of a crime he didn't do after Bill doesn't tell him where Matt has gone to.There's are reasons why I would recommend this movie to others and reasons why I wouldn't. The reasons why I would recommend The Opposite of Sex is the following: a fresh, cliché-free plot, the clever dialogue and, most of all, the performance by Christina Ricci. The little girl who started out in Mermaids, the two Addams Family movies and Casper truly has gone far in her career. The Ice Storm may have been her first non-kid friendly adult role, but I would honestly have to say that The Opposite of Sex is what firmly cemented her as a mature actress all the while saying that the little girl who played Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family, The Addams Family Values and Kat Harvey in Casper has grown up is moving on with her career, something that many other child stars (here's looking at you, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Lindsay Lohan!) can't seem to do. In addition with that, her performance as Dedee Truitt is something that has to be seen to be believed; Christina makes us, the audience hate and love Dedee at the same time. How she never got that Golden Globe she was nominated for or an Oscar for that matter is beyond me.Now the reasons why I wouldn't recommend this movie. As I said in my title black comedy isn't something for everyone. Combined with the fact that this movie is also VERY unpolitcally correct as well as that half the characters in this movie are gay (yes, I know it's a stupid reason to hate a movie because it has gay characters, but a lot of idiots on IMDb practically throw a fit over this movie for that reason). The tagline of the movie "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be offended!" isn't lying. If you love black comedy you'll laugh, if you don't you'll just end up crying and being offended. I personally think that's why there's so many negative comments about this movie both in other reviews and on the message boards: people sat down watching this movie thinking that it going to be harmless entertainment, only go get a slap in face from darkness and the context of the movie.So to conclude, I'll just say again that I love The Opposite of Sex and again say who will enjoy this movie and who won't.People who will like/love The Opposite of Sex: fans of dark/black comedy, fans of Christina Ricci and people who want to watch a movie that is bold, daring and original.People who will dislike/hate The Opposite of Sex: the easily offended, Politcaly Correct Nazis, homophobes and people who don't like and/or don't understand dark/black comedy.Personal rating: 9/10

moonspinner55 Brazen teenage girl leaves an unhappy home to live with her gay half-brother, but she ends up seducing her brother's chiseled-but-naive lover--convincing him that she's carrying his child. Over-stuffed, acid-tongued comedy-of-ills is chockful of unlikable people. Credit director Don Roos for going full-throttle with such chancy material, yet the edges of this brittle script are rather limp; the movie is either amusingly bitchy or offensively boring, with joke-gimmicks that don't work and a strident narrative pitched way too high. Lisa Kudrow is the sole bright spot playing a friend of the family. In the lead, unremarkable Christina Ricci turns up her urchin chin at the camera and squints her eyes in seductive thought, but she's trying too hard to be sexy--she's pouty, but hardly a Lolita. ** from ****

ogreintheovaloffice You may think I'm some hysterical fan who just saw the movie and picked 10/10 since I couldn't be bothered evaluating the film first but that is not the case. I have tried to find fault with this film but they're really isn't much to go on. All in all the film is perfect; the elevator music-type score is perfect, the acting unnaturally good and the plot, though at times complicated, very smart and always interesting.16 year old Dedee Truit (Christina Ricci) leaves her her hometown of Louisina after her step-father dies to live with her gay half-brother, Bill (Martin Donavan). Whilst there, she convinces his live-in boyfriend Matt (Ivan Sergei) that he's straight. The two run away together along with 10,000 and in turn set of a chain of events that Bill could certainly do without.Don't get me wrong, this is only stage one of the plot and it all develops hilariously thanks to Don Roo's brilliant script. Of course that wouldn't mean much if the acting wasn't worth it's material, but as mentioned before, it most certainly is. Considered by many as Ricci's adult breakout role, it's here that the then 19 year old shows us what she's made of. Her monotone voice is perfect for the characters dead-pan narration whilst the scene in which she's giving birth is, though a bit hard to watch, always rewarding during every sitting.Kudrow as a stick-up-her-ass spoilsport scores some serious points too. After "Romy and Michelle" and "Friends" it's nice to know that she can reach a little deeper and when she gets a genuinely happy ending, you can't help but feel touched. The rest of the cast are excellent too and all deserve praises.So if you look at a trailer for this or something and think it's just some slick, sleazy sex-fest, I urge you to reconsider. Chances are, you won't regret it.