Just 17 years old, this biting comedy of manners - Dangerous Liaisons transported to NYs Upper East Side - has already dated terribly, especially in respect to the gay-shaming that features heavily in its plot, but if you can view the movie as a product of its homophobic time, there's a lot to enjoy including Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar as the schemer who wages sex to get her half-brother (Ryan Phillipe) to bed Reese Witherspoon's straight-laced virgin Annette Hargrove - oh, and if you just want to watch it because at one point Ryan Phillipe bares all, well, there's no shame in that.
★★★☆☆
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