By Stephen Saito
For once, timing is in the favor of Daniel Waters, the prodigiously talented writer behind "Heathers" who admits to "taking forever to write a script." Waters's latest film, "Sex and Death 101," opens in theaters April 4th, but the dark comedy actually begins on April 2nd, when a playboy (Simon Baker) is accidentally e-mailed a list of all his future sexual conquests before dying. While a life of musical lap dances and "an embarrassment of bitches" await Baker's Mr. Roderick Blank, so does a sense of mortality and ennui.
It's a bit reassuring to see Waters's second directorial effort arrive in theaters a week after many pondered the disappearance of John Hughes, whose earnest '80s teen classics were redefined by Waters's sardonic satire of high school life. In the years since "Heathers" was released in 1989, Waters turned a development deal with producer Joel Silver in the early...
For once, timing is in the favor of Daniel Waters, the prodigiously talented writer behind "Heathers" who admits to "taking forever to write a script." Waters's latest film, "Sex and Death 101," opens in theaters April 4th, but the dark comedy actually begins on April 2nd, when a playboy (Simon Baker) is accidentally e-mailed a list of all his future sexual conquests before dying. While a life of musical lap dances and "an embarrassment of bitches" await Baker's Mr. Roderick Blank, so does a sense of mortality and ennui.
It's a bit reassuring to see Waters's second directorial effort arrive in theaters a week after many pondered the disappearance of John Hughes, whose earnest '80s teen classics were redefined by Waters's sardonic satire of high school life. In the years since "Heathers" was released in 1989, Waters turned a development deal with producer Joel Silver in the early...
- 4/9/2008
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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