Rented and watched, with my wife, "Sex, Lies and Videotape," directed by Steven Soderbergh, and found that I did not like it as much as the first time I saw it, in a theatre in 1989. The sexual theme now seemed to disguise, rather too thinly, a ready formula. There is a bad man who, to the dismay of the audience, is succeeding on several fronts, including the sexual, where he has traded in his frigid wife for her very hot sister. You get to really hate him and wish he'd receive his comeuppance, that the wool will fall from his wife's eyes, that the bad man's more deserving old college friend will become the new object of the wronged woman's affection, and that the rival sisters will be reconciled as the bad man suffers humiliation.
Believe it or not, that is exactly what happens.
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