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A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
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Classical in form, contemporary, spare and relentless.
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- Zoro DPieceon TMDB · May 20187/10
Possibly one of the funniest satirical stabs at sexuality, AIDS and LGBT relationships. Don Roos known for television direction and script writing tries his hand at a theatrical film. The movie stars Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow and Ivan Sergei. Sixteen year old Dede Truitt (Ricci) is the opposite of sweet sixteen, politically incorrect and acid-tongued. When her stepfather passes away she runs away from home, and pays her half brother Bill (who is a gay teacher) a visit. Unaware that he has an alternative lifestyle, she meets his significant other, Matt (Sergei). Dede takes a liking to Matt and seduces him into having sex with her, much to the dismay of Bill (Donovan) and Lucia Dalury (Kudrow), who is the sister of Bill's former boyfriend Tom who passed away. Dede then tells them she is pregnant and Matt is the father, the two elope and run away with Bill's safety deposit money and Tom's ashes. The chase begins, to add more tension Bill has to deal with Matt's other boyfriend. The grunge looking flamboyant Jason Bock (Johnny Galecki), who slanders Bill by falsely accusing him of molestation. Bill at risk of losing his job, must track down Dede and Matt in order to
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Cast
- Christina RicciDedee Truitt
- Martin DonovanBill Truitt
- Lisa KudrowLucia DeLury
- Lyle LovettCarl Tippett
- Johnny GaleckiJason Bock
- William Lee ScottRandy "One Ball" Cates
- Ivan SergeiMatt Mateo
- Megan BlakeBobette
- Colin FergusonTom DeLury
- Dan BucatinskyTimothy
Crew
- Don RoosDirector
- Don RoosWriter
- Hubert TaczanowskiDirector of Photography
- Mason DaringOriginal Music Composer
- David CodronEditor
- Michael BesmanProducer
- David Paul KirkpatrickProducer
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