

Cruel Intentions
Directed by Roger Kumble
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession. From TMDB
199 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 2, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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Cruel Intentions is a 1999 drama romance film, directed by Roger Kumble, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon.
- 182 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
- posts span May 12, 2023 to Nov 1, 2026
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60 of 199 · most liked firstThe art of the soundtrack as mix tape (The Crow, Tank Girl, Cruel Intentions) has been replaced for tracks written for the movie or just orchestral scores and I hate it. I want B-sides from every popular band on soundtracks. I want someone curating it to put crazy combinations together. I miss it.
negative · AI labelView post →PRODUCER: So we're gonna do a Cruel Intentions series AMAZON EXEC: i dunno man. That film was very much a specific vibe, with a great cast at a specific time and- PRODUCER: We've already commissioned a weird cover of Bittersweet Symphony for the trailer AMAZON EXEC: Oh okay sure greenlit then.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching Cruel Intentions for the first time and I didn’t realize this movie had a Sarah Michelle Gellar lesbian kiss set to Coffee & TV by Blur
neutral · AI labelView post →As you can imagine I have long been an absolutely maddening person for Film Guys to talk to. I’ve never seen any movies but the ones I have seen (Clue, Cruel Intentions, Inglourious Basterds, Clueless, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, etc) I’ve seen dozens of times apiece
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday 📽️! An enjoyable movie week for me with the highlight being the Anne Hathaway double feature at the cinema. What are your #LastFourWatched? Mother Mary (2026) The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Cruel Intentions (1999) Orangutan (2026)
neutral · AI labelView post →Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair celebrate winning the Best Kiss award at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards for Cruel Intentions. ❤️💋
neutral · AI labelView post →“Cruel Intentions” (1999) weird ass movie made even weirder by the idea we’re supposed to root for this weird ass kid who takes advantage of girls throughout the movie.
negative · AI labelView post →I need more film recommendations to add to this list without saying Cruel Intentions, Jawbreaker or Wild Things. 🎥🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →I think the very first Millennial movie was CRUEL INTENTIONS
neutral · AI labelView post →Suppose you can make a case for Cruel Intentions as the most 1990s movie. And no, I will not be watching that with the eldest.
positive · AI labelView post →#ArtistFave15 Placebo #MusicChallenge 3️⃣ 'Every You Every Me' (1998) Taken from their second album "Without You I' m Nothing" it is also the soundtrack for the film 'Cruel Intentions.' A breathtaking song exploring a co- dependant relationship with candour in a way only Placebo can.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway your reminder that the director of Cruel Intentions later directed a film called 'Furry Vengeance' which sounds like a Cruel Intentions sequel but most definitely is not. Google it. Trust me.
neutral · AI labelView post →The 2000 movie "Cruel Intentions 2," a re-cut of a TV adaption-turned sequel to "Cruel Intentions," which was adapted from "Dangerous Liaisons," a film adapted from a Broadway play that itself was an adaptation of an 18th century French novel, was produced by a company called "Original Film."
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 review of CRUEL INTENTIONS boxd.it/edILYT Gleefully wicked, campy tale of sex, betrayal, & debauchery is perfectly at home in elite NYC prep school! Bad movie magic, with hysterical Selma Blair performance, is wildly entertaining, until going soft in ill-conceived final act. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Cruel Intentions, messed up relationships, redemption and retribution. They Will Kill You, felt like it didn't know what it wanted to be. The Babysitter, Samara Weaving and Satanists again! Funny movie. Eenie Meanie, good car chases, but needed more of them.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched A movie of the finale for the coming-of-age story. Heartstopper. Loved the series; was disappointed Olivia Colman ditched the finale. Found solace in Ingmar Bergman (if I had a nickel!). Cruel Intentions made me long for Dangerous Liaisons. #FilmSky 📽 #CinemaSky 🎞️
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie choice of the night: Cruel Intentions 😍 Good night fags xo
positive · AI labelView post →Amazon's new "Cruel Intentions" probably isn't the worst "90-minute movie stretched into a full-length TV show" adaptation in recent years (or weeks), but it could be the most pointless, which is perhaps why I've seen ZERO promotion for it. My review:
negative · AI labelView post →For gay reasons, I'm going to be watching Cruel Intentions for the very first time.
neutral · AI labelView post →So excited to have @claykeller.bsky.social, the man who introduced us, on the pod to talk about Cruel Intentions 2, a truly deranged “movie” that I highly recommend watching before our episode drops next week.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching CRUEL INTENTIONS (1999). Director: Roger Kumble. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe. Rewatching hot & horny teen camp interpretation of Dangerous Liasons. Why? Everyone's so impossibly young & pretty. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Which song is forever linked to a movie for you now? For me...Bitter Sweet Symphony in Cruel Intentions
neutral · AI labelView post →Me, watching Cruel Intentions as a young person: "haha sick" Me, watching Cruel Intentions as an adult: "holy fuck this is an evil movie. Soundtrack slaps tho
neutral · AI labelView post →#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1 - Movie outro / Credits Cruel Intentions (1999) The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony youtu.be/V2xCLOjOWco?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie selection is “Cruel Intentions” (1999). Yet another re-interpretation of the 1792 novel "Les Liaisons dangereuses” by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - this time with obnoxiously rich teens
neutral · AI labelView post →Vintage Joshua Jackson soles from the movie Cruel Intentions (1999) #malefeet
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Cruel Intentions on @primevideo.bsky.social . I’m watching this movie again to celebrate SMG’s birthday. Also, this is my favorite movie starring SMG. #Filmsky #Moviesky #April
positive · AI labelView post →I don’t know why I have the Cruel Intentions soundtrack in my head but I do feel like it’s a sign I should watch the movie for the millionth time, right?
neutral · AI labelView post →#Music #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Alt&Grunge #BreakingKindSongs Placebo Every You Every Me Day 17 - A song you would love to put in a movie or musical. I chose this song prior to learning it was in "Cruel Intentions." Put it in another one or in a musical! 👍 youtube.com/watch?v=4YR_...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today’s movies include: The Curve, Cruel Intentions, and Us
neutral · AI labelView post →Morning, friends🎶 80,000 DoVA jobs will be cut. That's what Elonald thinks of America's Veterans🤬 From the movie Cruel Intentions, Colorblind by Counting Crows #EarWorm youtu.be/y0s7ycdUcHk?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a 90s movie that starts with the letter C? Cruel Intentions #moviesky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Selma Blair & Sarah Michelle Gellar winning Best Kiss for Cruel Intentions at the MTV Movie awards (2000) 📸💋
neutral · AI labelView post →What movie did you see way too young? I was... 10 and my parents had left me to watch over my brother while they went out for bible study. Cruel Intentions was chosen because "oh look it's Buffy, we like Buffy" It was... Not a good idea. We watched Kung Pow after to feel better.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film Independent announced today that Julio Torres will direct a Live Read of Cruel Intentions at the Directors Guild of America New York Theatre on Monday, April 7. www.filmindependent.org/events/live-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Lil' Sprockman would cry at the end of any movie where the protagonist died okay like I cried at the end of Cruel Intentions and that guy was probably still a huge prick when he died
neutral · AI labelView post →Cruel Intentions was a movie that i thought was cool and edgy when i was 14 and saw it for the first time and in retrospect..... uuhhhhhhhhhh
negative · AI labelView post →Sometimes I wonder if I'm oversexed because I'm French. Did you know that, in France, US movie titles are often translated by just adding the word sex? Cruel Intentions becomes way more explicit:
neutral · AI labelView post →White people movie: Cruel Intentions (incredibly privileged and wealthy people being horrible to each other for no reason other than they can) Black people movie: His House (South Sudanese refugees adapting to their new lives in England experiencing racism and hostility, oh and their house is haunted)
neutral · AI labelView post →the pope was advised to not list his fifth favorite movie Cruel Intentions
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's first movie is Cruel Intentions (1999) 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →Man 1997 was an excellent year for music! I don’t think I’ve seen this one yet, which also reminds me of the Cruel Intentions movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The complete first season of GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX, the exclusive premiere of a new Charlie Kaufman short starring Jessie Buckley, the vicious teen-movie favorite CRUEL INTENTIONS, and the lone feature to date directed by THE SOPRANOS creator David Chase.
neutral · AI labelView post →The complete first season of GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX, the exclusive premiere of a new Charlie Kaufman short starring Jessie Buckley, the vicious teen-movie favorite CRUEL INTENTIONS, and the lone feature to date directed by THE SOPRANOS creator David Chase.
neutral · AI labelView post →CHALLENGERS is one of those good things in life: internationally respected arthouse type director Luca Guadagnino doing a sexy tennis movie I can't help but compare to CRUEL INTENTIONS. A really good pop movie that doesn't compromise his sensibilities at all and rocks an A+ Reznor/Ross techno score.
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazon is making a "Cruel Intentions" TV series adaptation inspired by the iconic ‘90s film of the same name If you know me, you know my first thought was: Cool cool cool, more wealthaganda and stories about the lives of the powerful and upper crust! There's been such a dearth!
neutral · AI labelView post →if anybody ever asks what it was like to be a teenager circa the year 2000 i am going to show them the movie Cruel Intentions and tell them we thought this movie was so cool
neutral · AI labelView post →Cruel Intentions the most 90s movie?!
neutral · AI labelView post →Wifey and I wanted to watch a movie tonight and wanted something familiar. She pitched Cruel Intentions; I pitched The Boondock Saints Where did we land? You guessed it: The 1999 animated smash hit Tarzan
neutral · AI labelView post →What is the greatest movie soundtrack of all time and why is it Cruel Intentions?
positive · AI labelView post →Things that made me gay in no particular order: Britney Spears Blanche -The Golden Girls Chris Evans -Not Another Teen Movie Chris Meloni -Law&Order SVU Ariel and Prince Eric Rachel - Friends Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe -Cruel Intentions Clue-the movie Jake Ryan - 16 candles
neutral · AI labelView post →Cruel Intentions (1999) Director: Roger Kumble Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair Watch Review wp / ltrbox
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: CRUEL INTENTIONS (1999) #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: 📽️Cruel Intentions (1999)📽️ "Romance/Thriller" 👩Cecile: "This doesn't taste like iced tea" 👦Sebastian: "It's from Long Island" #FilmSky #GuiltyPleasures
neutral · AI labelView post →'Cruel Intentions' Series: A Modern Twist on Seduction, Power, and Deception #CruelIntentions #TVSky www.jereereviews.com/post/cruel-i...
neutral · AI labelView post →James and I are watching Cruel Intentions, which is like the 90s-est 90s teen sexy drama movie there is but also? Selma Blair is so fucking funny in it
positive · AI labelView post →haha this is like asking me which of my greater than 90 year old patients is my favorite (I love all of them). I've been stuck in 1990s #music my whole life. I'll go with something from a popular #1990s #movie #soundtrack (Cruel Intentions, GREAT soundtrack) and I listened to a lot in #highschool 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie scenes that influenced me growing up: - Reese getting finger banged on a rollercoaster in Fear - Neve and Denise and Matt having a threesome in Wild Things - Sarah and Selma making out in Cruel Intentions - Chloe blowing Vincent in The Brown Bunny - Basically the entire movie Kids 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Cruel Intentions: Roger Kumble is the Jane Austen of sociopathic teenage douchebag tales. The movie is a chef's weirdly-insistent kiss on a naive pussy, sociology as a series of bloodletting sharkbites. One of the greatest scripts EVER. Rotten Tomatoes' 54%? A fucking CRIME. #FilmSky Verdict: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
positive · AI labelView post →In a bookstore and a Gen Z girl is excitedly telling her friends that she just discovered there’s a Cruel Intentions *movie* and they have to watch it, so if anyone needs me I’ll be in my crypt
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