Movies

July, 1998

Looking all grown up, petite Christina Ricci plays a precocious runaway named Dedee in The Opposite of Sex (Sony Classics). Writer Don Roos (his screenplays include Love Field and Single White Female) debuts as a director with this be-guilingly tangled tale about relationships. When Dedee flees Louisiana to live with her gay half-brother, Bill (Martin Donovan), in Indiana, everyone's life gets complicated. Bill, a teacher, has inherited money from his recently deceased lover and acquired a hands...