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Cruel Intentions

1999 · Movie · 97 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer53%as of 2024-10-27
  • Rotten Tomatoes average5.3/10as of 2021-10-10
  • Metacritic56/100as of 2025-10-17

What it is

Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American teen romantic drama film written and directed by Roger Kumble, and starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The film, set in New York City among rich high schoolers, is a modern retelling of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.

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Genres
Romance / Drama
Original language
English

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