Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe), two wealthy, manipulative teenage stepsiblings from Manhattan’s uppercrust, conspire in Cruel Intentions, a wickedly entertaining tale of seduction and betrayal. The stakes are high when the duo agrees upon a deliciously diabolical wager of sexual conquest without consequences. The pawns? The naïve Cecile Caldwell (Selma Blair) and the virginal Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon)…..

It’s summer break, an Kathryn has been dumped by her beau, Court Reynolds, for the innocent Cecile. Desperate to get even, Kathryn challenges Sebastian to ruin Cecile by 

He sets his sights on a greater challenge-the new headmaster’s daughter, Annette, who recently wrote an article in Seventeen Magazine about how she intends to stay pure until she marries her boyfriend. Sebastian bets Kathryn that he can seduce the chaste and pristine Annette before school begins in the fall. Kathryn thinks this feat impossible and quickly agrees to the wager. The stakes:if Sebastian succeeds, Kathryn must give him a night of unbridled biblical pleasure, something he’s wanted since their parents got married. If he fails, he must forfeit his priceless 1956 Jaguar to Kathryn ans suffer the shame of defeat.

Cruel Intentions is directed by Roger Kumble from a screenplay by Kumble, produced by Neal H. Moritz, executive produced by Michael Fottrell and co-produced by Heather Zeegen. Co-executive producers are William Tyrer, Bruce Mellon and Chris J.Ball. The cast is led by Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Kathryn Merteuil: Ryan Phillippe(54)as Sebastian Valmont: Reese Witherspoon (Pleasantville) as Annette Hargrove: Selma Blair (Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane) as Cecile Caldwell and sean Patrick Thomas (Can’t Hardly Wait) as Ronald Clifford, with appearance by Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) as Aunt Helen; Swoosie Kurtz (Dangerous Liaisons) as Dr.Greenbaum; Christine Baranski(Bulworth) as Mrs. Caldwell;Eric Mabius (Welcome to the Dollhouse) as Greg Mc Connell and Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek) as Blaine Tuttle.

Rounding out the production ream are the photography theo Van De Sande, A.S.C. , production designer Jon Gary Steele, costume designer DeniseWingate and editor Jeff Freeman, A.C..E.

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