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06/24/08
Sex With Strangers (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 30 Fresh: 12 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 5.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Synopsis: SEX WITH STRANGERS focuses on swinging--or couples engaging openly in sex with other, often multiple, partners. Filmed on digital video over a year by filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz (HBO's Taxicab Confessions), the film observes two couples and and a trio who partake in what is known by... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
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01/21/03
If you want to see a train wreck that you can’t look away from, then look no further, because here it is.
12/08/02
It's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking good.
10/11/02
Sex With Strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness. But what is missing from it all is a moral. What is the filmmakers’ point? Why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery?
10/07/02
As a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle, Sex with Strangers is a success.
09/20/02
Couples titillated by the possibility of swinging will probably leave the theater gripping each other's hands a little more tightly.
09/13/02
Finally, a movie for people who just can't get enough Jerry Springer.
08/31/02
Swinging, the film makes it seem, is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit. Or intelligent.
08/30/02
I didn't find much fascination in the swinging. What they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games, of no erotic or sensuous charge. But that they are doing it is thought-provoking.
08/16/02
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A film that forces you to bring along and confront your own sexual mores, whether you like it or not.
08/15/02
It's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue, only to be revealed by the dispassionate Gantz brothers as ordinary, pasty lumpen.
06/06/02
While we see a lot of clammy groping and creepy parties, we also witness the couples going through their inevitable emotional traumas even as they struggle to sublimate their spiritual needs into sex.
06/01/02
If you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies, what Sex With Strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever.
05/25/02
It leers, offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject.
05/17/02
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