Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- bet
- virgin
- drug abuse
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- sexual obsession
- upper class
- cynic
- sadistic
- eroticism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Kathryn Merteuil
Ryan Phillippe
Sébastian Valmont
Reese Witherspoon
Annette Hargrove
Selma Blair
Cecile Caldwell
- Louise Fletcher — Helen Rosemond
- Joshua Jackson — Blaine Tuttle
- Eric Mabius — Greg McConnell
- Sean Patrick Thomas — Ronald Clifford
- Swoosie Kurtz — Dr. Greenbaum
- Christine Baranski — Bunny Caldwell
- Alaina Reed Hall — Nurse
- Deborah Offner — Mrs. Michalak
- Tara Reid — Marci Greenbaum
- Herta Ware — Mrs. Sugarman
- Hiep Thi Le — Mai-Lee
- Directed
- Roger Kumble
- Written
- Roger Kumble
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 3,676 ratings
- Studio
- Newmarket Capital Group, Original Film, Neal H. Moritz Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1999 · You’re hereCruel Intentions
Where it starts.
Cruel Intentions 3
2004
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
