Despite the word being in the title, there is almost no sex in the movie. No nudity either. Sorry to disappoint all the pervos out there. Still, it's not a movie for kids. The topics it deals with, as well as the stuff that comes out of the mouth of Ricci's character, definitely make for an adult film.
"The Opposite of Sex" has an interesting cast. Aside from Christina Ricci, there's Martin Donovan (a star of many independent films like "Nadja" and several Hal Hartley movies like "Amateur," "Trust," and "Simple Men"), Lisa Kudrow ("Phoebe" from the "Friends" TV show), Lyle Lovett (Country star/Julia Roberts' ex-husband/weird-lookin' guy), Johnny Galecki (he was the boyfriend of Roseanne's youngest daughter in the TV show, "Roseanne"), and a guy I never heard of named Ivan Sergei. They all work well together, but I think that Johnny Galecki tried a little too hard to seem gay. I dunno, it just seemed false.
This movie was written and directed by Don Roos. This is his debut as a director, but he wrote "Boys on the Side," "Single White Female," and "Love Field"... all movies with strong women as central characters. He writes women well, but the problem with this movie is that Christina Ricci's character is TOO unlikable. She's the narrator (and let me say that it was the best narration ever in a movie), and she even says that we (the audience) aren't gonna like her, but still, she was too much. There's not a single character that she's nice to.
This is a
very clever movie, and I liked a lot of things about it, but I think that
Roos shoulda pulled the reigns on the mean-spiritedness of Ricci's character.
I mean, even the cold-blooded hitmen of "Pulp Fiction" were nice to each
other.