The Opposite of Sex

(TriStar)

Christina Ricci plays a teenage tough cookie who leaves the Louisiana funeral of her abusive stepfather to crash in on her half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan) in Indiana. In short order she seduces Bill's dumb but studly lover Matt (Ivan Sergei) and sets off a series of misadventures whose contrivance is exceeded only by their bad taste. Don Roos's insufferable film proves the opposite not only of sex but of everything else that is passionate, spontaneous, human, and fun.