Normally, when the writer and the director are the same person, the war's over and nobody complains. Not so with The Opposite of Sex . It's an entertaining fight. Clasping together his hands, which have each word tattooed on the fingers, Mitchum arm-wrestles himself back and forth while loudly sermonizing. Roos, via his screenplay and his direction, does much the same thing throughout The Opposite of Sex .
People getting dumped are always lovable.
A little of both, perhaps. Or maybe he has no idea that what he's doing is self-canceling. Either way, director Roos and writer Roos both seem to be having a great time. To his credit, director Roos has done the impossible by taking an utterly complicated storyline and making it seem brisk and light. Within its first 20 minutes, The Opposite of Sex has enough machinations to give any soap opera serious plot envy.