My 150 Favorite Movies - #107

The Opposite of Sex (1998)

One of the most pithy of all narrators can be found in this darkly acerbic comedy, as played by Christina Ricci, as a teenage nymphet, out to upend lives for her own gain. "If you think I'm just plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in over your heads. I don't have a heart of gold and I *don't* grow one later, OK? But relax. There's other people a lot nicer coming up - we call them losers." A rare comedy in which the women get all the best lines, Lisa Kudrow  is also here, playing a 30-ish spinster, a far cry from her Friends character. The tagline pretty much says it all: "You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be offended."