Plot
A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crime.
Release Year: 2007
Rating: 6.1/10 (6,234 voted)
Critic's Score: 24/100
Director:
Daniel Waters
Stars: Robert Wisdom, Tanc Sade, Patton Oswalt
Storyline Just before he's to marry Fiona, Roderick Blank receives an anonymous e-mail with 101 names on it; Fiona's is the 29th, the first 28 are women Rod has slept with, and the 30th turns out to be the stripper at his bachelor party. The notion that he will have sex with 70 more people sends Rod into crisis mode, especially after three odd men in an aseptic office confirm that a celestial machine has made an error. They suggest destroying the list, but Rod finds that easier said than done. Working his way through it consumes him, plus he realizes that death may await him after #101. Meanwhile, a femme fatale nicknamed Death Nell is putting men into a coma. Are they fated to meet?
Runtime:
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USA:
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Did You Know?
Trivia:
The list of lovers also includes Selena Kyle (Catwoman's real name), Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda's role in "Walk on the Wild Side"), Barbarella Pygar (formed from Fonda's "Barbarella" character and its blind angel Pygar), Candace Christian (the full name of the title character of the 1968 sex romp "Candy"), Annabelle Lee (the title of an Edgar Allan Poe poem), Carlotta Valdes (a character in "Vertigo"), and Gillian De Raisx (a modification of the 15th-century aristocratic French serial killer Gilles De Rais).
Goofs:
Factual errors:
The school bus driver's nametag has a commonly misspelled word: "Your" instead of "You're".
Quotes: Gillian:
My wounds are deeper than your desires.
User Review
Kind of intriguing, but too much of everything
Rating: 6/10
"Sex and Death 101" tries to be so many things at the same: a romantic
flick, a dark comedy, a mystery-drama and a highly philosophical movie
in the vein of "Matrix" (even including a white room where existential
questions are discussed). Well, as I've said in the headline, the movie
definitely does have its intriguing moments and there are quite a few
meaningful lines in the script.
However, "Sex and Death 101" is too volatile to really be successful in
any of the genres it touches. The story takes a thousand twists and
turns. It's too cynical to be romantic, too shallow to be profound and
too erratic to blow your mind. Characters are introduced and forgotten
about in 10 minute-intervals and all of the main characters' friends
just kind of disappear at the end, when Winona Ryder's character
finally comes into the picture. Make no mistake, Ryder doesn't play a
huge role in the whole movie. Her character seems awfully constructed
and forced into the script. When the whole story is finally resolved it
doesn't really make sense and leaves you totally uncertain of what the
hell it was you just saw.
"Sex and Death 101" isn't the worst movie you could rent, but it's
certainly pretty strange. I don't even know whom to recommend this to.
Fans of Winona Ryder will not be happy with the little amount of screen
time she gets. Friends of romcoms will find fault with both, the amount
of rom and of com in this. To enjoy "Sex and Death 101" you probably
just have to accept the fact that you don't know what you're gonna get.
And, hey, that's kind of what the movie is about, too, I guess.
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