Cruel Intentions

Sebastian and Kathryn are two half-brothers who go to the same elite school in New York and challenge each other to a perverse bet around Annette Hargrove, a student who plans to remain a virgin until she marries, whom Sebastian will try to seduce. A nineties transposition of the novel Dangerous Liaisons, which thanks to a quartet of very good performances (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair and Ryan Phillippe) creates an atmosphere with a tone that feels very real.

A few years before the events depicted in the 1999 film. It follows the lives of rich step siblings Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil as they playfully manipulate the people surrounding them at their exclusive New York prep school.

Cassidy Merteuil, the distant cousin of Kathryn Merteuil, arrives in Santa Barbara, California to attend college. There she meets Jason Argyle, a former friend from her high school also attending the school. Jason gets a roommate, Patrick Bales. Jason and Patrick form a mean-spirited partnership of seducing and dumping various young women on campus. When both of their latest conquests bore them, Jason bets Patrick if they can seduce a particular newcomer, who is under the wing of Cassidy. But nothing is what it seems as a triangle of Cassidy, Jason, and Patrick forms with each one scheming to outwit the other.