Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar & Selma Blair
Director:Roger Kumble
Rating:
Enetertainment Quotient: 70%
Genre: Romance
Runtime: 97 min
MPAA rating: R for strong sexual dialogue and sexual situations involving teens, language and drug use

Synopsis:

Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) are step siblings. They are manipulative and have an incestuous relationship. Annette (Reese Witherspoon), a virgin, is the daughter of the school head master. Kathryn holds a grudge against Annette and challenges Sebastian to deflower Annette. The rest of the story is all about whether her cruel intentions are fulfilled or not.

What is special in the film?
This film is an unabashed display of perversion. The siblings in this film are manipulative and are experts at backstabbing and betraying. They have no morals. The director was able to establish every character in a precise way and carries the narration by upholding an element of suspense all the time. The sex scenes and dialogues are a little too explicit. Sarah Michelle Gellar is outrageously sexy as the manipulative teenager.

The scenes I liked?

1. The introduction episode in which Sebastian dupes the psychiatrist.

2. Kathryn teaching Cecile how to kiss.

3. Kathryn storing drugs in the cross.

4. The climax episode where ‘Cruel Intentions’ Xeroxed version distributed in the college.

Tailpiece: This film is a remake of a film titled ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ which in turn is based on a novel of the same name. I see a lot of resemblance between Cruel Intentions and the ‘The wings of the dove’ (TWOTD). TWOTD is about the girlfriend asking the guy to love another girl. ‘Cruel Intentions’ is about a step-sister asking her brother to fall in love with another girl. I see Cruel Intentions as a perverted version of TWOTD.