A guy's life is turned around by an e-mail that 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 (Ryd... Read allA guy's life is turned around by an e-mail that 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.A guy's life is turned around by an e-mail that 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.
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- Buzzkilling Bodyguard
- (as Bryan Okes Fuller)
- Bachelor Party Buddy
- (as Brian Ross)
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- TriviaThe list of lovers also includes Selena Kyle (Catwoman's real name), Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda's role in "Walk on the Wild Side" (1962)), Barbarella Pygar (formed from Fonda's Barbarella (1968) character and its blind angel Pygar), Candace Christian (the full name of the title character of the sex romp "Candy" (1968)), Annabelle Lee (the title of an Edgar Allan Poe poem), Carlotta Valdes (a character in "Vertigo" (1958)), and Gillian De Raisx (a modification of the 15th-century aristocratic French serial killer Gilles De Rais).
- GoofsThe school bus driver's nametag has a commonly misspelled word: "Your" instead of "You're".
- Quotes
Roderick Blank: Life is a lot like death it happens to everyone whether they like it or not. And meaning of it all? Honestly? Who gives a fuck?
- SoundtracksDeep Water
Written by 'Tony Marsico' and 'Ric Menck'
Performed by the 'Del Reys'
Courtesy of Swing-O-Matic Productions
So what does this movie bring to us? The (blatantly visible) low budget. A cast almost riddled with relatively unknown (but promising) actors. A suite of devilishly hot women in stand-in (well, mostly "lie-down") roles. And, needless to say, a premise that is the part of every hot blooded human male's wet dreams. Are you with me yet? I promise, I'm not talking about the the 70s campy soft porn movie that you saw recently.
What would happen if a strapping young man (Simon Baker) got a magical e-mail one fine day listing all the women he had slept with and was going to ever sleep with in future? And, what if that lucky SOB actually had 101 names listed on that list? "Sex & Death 101" tries to answer. And, for most part, gets it right.
Someone once said: "Control your fate or somebody else will". And so goes the story of the young man who allows the piece of printed email to take control over his actions - which in this case means... well, he notches another one over his already very full belt. Somewhere between the disbelief over the email (despite the reassurances of the geek squad who manage the wondrous machine that sent out the hoopla causing email) and disbelief over his good fortune, our hero undergoes those human emotions that we all know very well: Guilt, Angst, Desperation. The intermix of his friends' advice and bickering adds an element of realism even in an escapist fantasy like this.
Winona Ryder plays the "death knell" sounding temptress who has been seducing perverted men to coma ridden sleep to, you know, get back at the evil men who have inflicted untold suffering on women. And you just know that Poison Ivy's parallel track story has to intersect with the story of our list-holding loverboy at some point. And it does. Therein is that taste of "stretching at the thread" that the viewer is left with. The setup seems a little bit forced. But hey, it's supposed to be escapist dark funny romcom - so what the hell, right?
The movie's premise ain't real, but the events and reactions are. Which is that unique mix of traits that makes this movie a little more than the regular spiel that Hollywood throws at us. It's definitely a good watch. And not to miss the allegoric play on the number in the title. It takes 101 women to teach the protagonist the basic meaning of sex - and death. Clever, no?
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- Jan 14, 2008
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- Also known as
- Blank's Slate
- Filming locations
- 1120 Westchester Place Los Angeles, California, USA(Rose Estate)
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Box office
- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $23,624
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $13,516
- Apr 6, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $1,229,330
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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