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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: 90'S GRAB BAG: Cruel Intentions (1999)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of manipulation, teen sex, drug use, homophobia and homophobic slurs, slut-shaming.
We’re wrapping up our 90’s series with a bang of a whimper that, being a teen sex drama, Maud had definitely seen and Macintosh had not. And do we wish we had not, because this is an outright terrible movie. Influence notwithstanding, this is the epitome of shock for shock’s sake, and making a literary classic into utter garbage. It’s hard to find any redemption in this movie, o...