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Title The opposite of sex Year 1998
Director Don Roos Writer Don Roos
Country USA Language English
Cast Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott, Ivan Sergei, Megan Blake, Colin Ferguson, Dan Bucatinsky, Chauncey Leopardi, Rodney Eastman, Heather Fairfield, Amy Atkins, Leslie Erin Grossman, Emily Newman, Harrison Young, Pancho Demmings, Terry L. Rose, Richard Moore, Susan Leslie, Judy Zale, Margaux St. Ledger, Leslie Bevis, Nicole Tocantins, Becky Wahlstrom, Peter Spears, Kristine Keever, David Phelps-Williams, Todd Eckert
Movie links Official site
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Trailer Quicktime
Dedee meets Matt Quicktime
Dedee and Lucia talk after dinner Quicktime
Dedee tells Matt she is pregnant Quicktime
Dedee tells Bill and Lucia she is pregnant Quicktime
Lucia meets Sheriff Tippet in the grocery store Quicktime

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At 16, Dedee Truitt (Christina Ricci) knows a lot about life... maybe too much. She runs away from her troubled Louisiana home to live with her half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan) and turns his quiet existence upsidedown.

Bill is a dedicated and caring English teacher in a small Indiana town who happens to be gay. He has been left independently wealthy after his lover died and is trying to resurrect his life with a new boyfriend, Matt (Ivan Sergei).

Lucia (Lisa Kudrow), Bill's sexually-repressed best friend and late lover's sister, distrusts the newcomer and tries to protect Bill. Her suspicions are confirmed when Dedee, being drawn to Matt's good looks and easy going manner, lures Bill's boyfriend into abandoning his gay lifestyle to be with her.

This unusual love triangle is further complicated when Dedee reveals she is pregnant and Matt is the father. She then persuades Matt to steal $10,000 of Bill's money and to hide out with her in Los Angeles.

For insurance, Dedee also steals the ashes of Bill's deceased lover and threatens to dump them if Bill comes looking for Matt and Dedee.

If things aren't bad enough for Bill, Matt's jilted, bitter ex-lover, Jason (Johnny Galecki), frames him for sexual harassment at his school, causing a scandal in their normally quiet town and forcing Bill and Lucia to go on a wild chase in search of Matt and Dedee to clear his name.

Sheriff Carl Tippett (Lyle Lovett) follows them, trying to help his friends Bill and Lucia find the runaways and keep them out of trouble, all while he finds himself falling in love with Lucia.

Lessons of life and love are learned as they all confront and explore their own sexuality, learn to let go of their traditional beliefs and ultimately discover that what they really want is what Dedee calls the opposite of sex - lasting, committed and loving relationships.

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This hilarious homo comedy is about a gay man and his boyfriend who get visited by his half-sister. Their quiet existence will never be the same.

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[Trying to calm Randy down]
Dedee: Randy, be Christlike!

Lucia: You're probably a blessing in disguise. Fucking good disguise.

Dedee: I'd like a Long Island iced tea, please.
Bill: Is that a good idea, for the baby?
Dedee: Oh, please. This baby owes its life to Long Island iced teas, if you know what I mean.

Jason Bock: If I save one kid from getting butt-fucked, from having his ass totally reamed until it looks like the Lincoln Tunnel and he can't stand up for three weeks, then maybe all of this is worth... something. Teachers everywhere have to learn that no means no... at least until we've dropped out.

[About marrying Matt]
Dedee: I just don't think it's something we should rush into.
Lucia: Oh, no, no. But bring another human life onto the planet -- that's whim time.

Randy: I'm just askin' that you stand by your man, like I'm standin' next to you! You know, a lot of guys, man, they woulda said that, "Shucks, man, she took up with them homosexuals. You know, she turned her back on righteousness."
Dedee: Oh, yeah, but blowing you in the backseat of your car every day after band, that was a stairway to heaven, right?

Girl Student: This is America, and we're Christians here -- aside from a few Jewish people who were just born that way -- and I can tell you one thing: Jesus Christ and his apostles were certainly not into "man-on-man action," which is how they describe it on their porno videos, which, I am proud to say, Blockbuster does not carry. Um, I work there and it's very family...
[pause]
Girl Student: Plus, that religion John Travolta belongs to.

Bill Truitt: He made his bed, he can lie in it.
Lucia: If there's room.

Lucia: Why did he grow that beard? And his posture! He looks like Early Man.

Lucia: Matt, this is not your baby, OK? It's some other idiot's baby, probably with an eighth grade education and a trunk full of Waco pamphlets.

Lucia: Vagina, vagina, vagina. Does that word do anything for you?
Bill Truitt: I don't think it does much for anyone, gay or straight.

Dedee: I don't have a heart of gold and I don't grow one later, OK? But relax. There's other people a lot nicer coming up -- we call them losers.

Dedee: God. How does a woman get so bitter?
Lucia: Observation.

[Dedee in labor]
Lucia: Are you having contractions?
Dedee: No, this is my sleepy face! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK?!

Dedee Truitt: Lucia and Carl had their baby. You can imagine the pick of that litter. It was the kind of kid that if you played with it too much after a feeding, you threw up.

Dedee: My mother was the kind of mother who always said she was her daughter's best friend. Whenever she did, I thought, "Great, not only do I have a shitty mother, but my best friend's a loser bitch."

Lucia: You've got a death wish. That's so selfish. I have one too, but I direct it toward others.

[Refusing heterosexual sex with Dedee]
Matt Mateo: I've never tried communism, but I know I wouldn't like that. It's the same thing. Or grits.

[Why sex is the opposite of what she wants]
Dedee: Sex always ends in kids or disease or like, you know, relationships.

[Pulling on Jason's nipple ring to get information about where Dedee and Matt are]
Jason Bock: Ow, that's pierced! Ow!!
Bill Truitt: Listen to me, you little grunge faggot. I survived my family, my schoolyard, every Republican, every other Democrat, Anita Bryant, the Pope, the fucking Christian Coalition, not to mention a real son of a bitch of a virus, in case you haven't noticed, and in all that time since Paul Lynde and Truman Capote were the only fairies in America, I've been busting my ass so that you'd be able to do what you wanted with yours! So I don't just want your obedience right now, which I do want and plenty of it, but I want your fucking gratitude, and I want it right fucking now, or you're going to be looking down a long road at your nipple in the dirt! Do you hear what I'm saying?!
Jason Bock: Yes!!
Bill Truitt: Take me to them!
Jason Bock: OK, OK, just let me go!
[Bill lets go]
Jason Bock: Ow, ow! You're supposed to be my brother, man!
Bill Truitt: Hey, I was brotherly, man. Think where else you're pierced. Let's go.

Lucia: This is how we do things on the Planet Maturia. We have much to teach you.

Sheriff Carl Tippett: What's the point of sleeping with you if it doesn't get your attention?

Sheriff Carl Tippett: Say the point of sex isn't recreation or procreation or any of that stuff. Say it's concentration. Say it's supposed to focus your attention on the person you're sleeping with, like biological highlighter. Otherwise, there's just too many people in the world.

Dedee: This part where I take the gun is like, duh, important.

Matt Mateo: I'm bisexual.
Lucia: Puh-lease! I went to a bar mitzvah once. That doesn't make me Jewish.

Lucia: Bill, I don't think he's as stupid we think.
Bill Truitt: As you think, Lucia.

Lucia: Fine! Goddammit! God... Fuck! Shit! I hope Tom Cruise is as straight as they come... I never thought he wasn't!

Dedee Truitt: [narrating] Rule one of sex: a person can do anything for ten minutes if they don't breath in.

Lucia: I don't know how you do it. You're always so nice and so calm. Tom was like that too. It's depressing.
Bill Truitt: You're nice.
Lucia: That's how I always felt around you too, like the Baroness in The Sound of Music. While everybody's just singing and climbing an Alp. And I just wanna STUFF THAT GUITAR UP THAT NUN'S ASS! And... ugh!

Lucia: Oh, good, it's my delivery from 1-800-PITY.

[Commenting on Bill's good looks]
Dedee Truitt: Yeah, too bad he's a homo, right?
Lucia: That's not how I would put it.
Dedee Truitt: Well too bad he's however you would put it.

[Narrating at the beginning of the movie]
Dedee Truitt: My name is Dedee Truitt. I'm sixteen, and this is Creve Coeur, Louisiana...which is French, I think, for like, 'fucked heart'.
Dedee Truitt: What'd you think, *I'd* be the dead one? I'm the fucking narrator, guys! Keep up!

Dedee Truitt: I know in movies you kind of feel sorry for girls like this, but in real life, you wouldn't be sitting next to her either.

Dedee Truitt: Les was a real asshole. To get cancer of the ass was, like, poetic. Almost as good as cancer of the dick, if they have that.

[about Matt's disappearance]
Jason Bock: For all I know, you killed him.
Bill Truitt: For all you know, I'm just getting started.

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