Cruel Intentions (1999)

Cruel Intentions (1999)
Director: Roger Kumble
== Plot Summary ==
Annette (Reese Witherspoon) unwittingly becomes a pawn in Sebastian's (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) deliciously diabolical wager of sexual conquest when she writes an article in Seventeen Magazine about how she intends to stay pure until she marries her boyfriend. However, Sebastian gets more than he bargained for as he attempts to woo Annette into his bed.
==Male Deaths==
*Ryan Phillippe [Sebastian Valmont]
==Female Deaths==
*None. 
== Gallery ==
Screen-shot-2013-06-05-at-12-25-37-am.png|Ryan Phillippe
== Trivia ==
*The film is a modern retelling of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (which was also made into the 1988 period drama film Dangerous Liaisons) set in New York City among rich high schoolers.
*Columbia Pictures wanted Katie Holmes to play Annette Hargrove, but writer and director Roger Kumble didn't think she had enough strength of character for the role. Ryan Phillippe was already signed on as Sebastian Valmont when Kumble asked about his girlfriend, Reese Witherspoon. "So, basically, we took Reese out to dinner to get her drunk, and we ended up getting drunk," Kumble revealed in 2014. "And I literally got down on my knees and begged her: 'Please, it'll be fifteen days, you'll be great.'" Witherspoon agreed.
*Both Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar previously worked together in the 1997 teen horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer.
*The film was originally called "Cruel Inventions," but test audiences thought that made it sound like a science fiction film, so the name was changed before it was released.
*According to costume designer Denise Wingate, Reese Witherspoon was deliberately wearing clothes in light colors in order to contrast with the dark color clothing that Ryan Phillippe was wearing throughout the film. Wingate also revealed that Selma Blair's red hoodie in the film was supposed to invoke the Little Red Riding Hood.
*Writer and director Roger Kumble was inspired by the 1995 film Welcome to the Dollhouse, he felt he had never seen anything like it which he stated "so dark," "fucked up high school." It quickly led him to the thought of doing a new adaptation of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," but set in high school.
*During the movie, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon were dating. The couple got married three months after the movie's release and had two children together, but ended up divorcing in 2008.
*The film was shot in six weeks which started from June 9, 1998 to July 15, 1998. 
*Both Reese Witherspoon and Joshua Jackson (who played the role of Blaine Tuttle in the film) would later work together again on the 2020 Hulu television miniseries Little Fires Everywhere. 
*The kissing scene between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair ranked the film at #32 on Entertainment Weekly's "The 50 Sexiest Movies Ever" (issue #1023, November 28, 2008).
*Writer and director Roger Kumble initially wrote the script in twelve days.
*When Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) is handing Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) the Seventeen Magazine to read, on the cover is Jennifer Love Hewitt. Ironically Jennifer Love Hewitt previously worked with both Gellar and Phillippe in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer. 
*Both Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair are best friends in real life.
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