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The Opposite of Sex

CastChristina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott, Ivan Sergei, Megan Blake, Colin Ferguson
Year released1998
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Burial for Dedee’s stepfather (0:02)

Dedee opens the urn containing her teacher half brother Bill’s lover Tom De Lury’s ashes. (0:08)

Tom’s sister Lucia tells Bill Truitt, "You’re in denial." (0:22)

Lucia tells Bill, "It’s depressing... like the baroness in The Sound of Music..." (0:23)

Police officer Carl Tippett tells Bill, "He said when he was a student... you molested him."
Lucia asks Bill, ”Remember Nancy’s funeral?” (0:24)

Dedee: "Lucia said it was denial." (0:28)

Dedee tells Lucia, then Matt, referring to Lucia, "I think you’re crazy. She’s crazy."
Lucia: ”It’s some other idiot’s baby...”
Dedee tells Lucia, ”Don’t worry.” (0:40)

Matt tells Lucia, "Don’t worry about it." (0:44)

Matt tells Bill, referring to Dedee, "She’s pregnant, probably abused with, like, all sorts of repressed memories that haven’t even occurred to her yet. She comes to her for help, and you let her go off with this, like, really violent stalker guy who tracked her down." (0:51)

Dedee asks Randy, "What’re you gonna do, shoot me, shoot yourself?"
Dedee: ”Don’t worry.” (0:56)

Lucia tells Bill, "See, you think you’re being nice, but it’s really just self-destructive."
Bill: ”When is it too hot to analyze me?”
Lucia: ”It’s so selfish.” (1:00)

Bill tells Lucia, "Don’t worry." (1:03)

Dedee, referring to Lucia: "... so people forgot about him, except you know who, the stalker." (1:09)

Bill tells Jason, "... in all that time, since Paul Lynde and Truman Capote were the only fairies in America..." (1:12)

Bill tells Dedee, "This is crazy..." (1:16)

Dedee: "... if they freak out about gays in the military." (1:21)

Dedee: "Contact grief." (1:30)

Lucia tells Matt, "... that’s a real intelligent question..." (1:31)

Dedee: "... Randy had left all these crazy writings In the room..." (1:33)

Dedee: "Anyway, R.J. was crazy about him..." (1:34)

Dedee, referring to sex: "It was a smarter thing to pick than, say, the instinct to share your toys or return phone calls." (1:35)

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