This wasn't a very good movie. I could see where they were going with it, but it suffers from a major flaw for me: an insufferably unlikeable narrator.
DeeDee Truitt (Christina Ricci) is a sociopathic 16-year-old who runs away from her Louisiana home to live with her gay half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan) and his hot-but-stupid boyfriend, Matt (Ivan Sergei) in the house he inherited from his previous lover, Tom (Colin Ferguson from Eureka. Yeah I was surprised, too). DeeDee's default position is homophobia but it's mostly the product of her redneck upbringings and not an inborn judgment.
She manages to seduce Matt, announce that she's pregnant, and steal ten grand from her brother's safe deposit box before absconding to parts unknown. In the wake of this, one of Matt's former lovers appears and threatens to ruin Bill's professional reputation if he doesn't reveal Matt's location. Lucia (Lisa Kudrow), his best friend and sister of dead Tom, is incensed and the pair go to LA to track the errant runaways down.
Once there, the paternity of the child is called into question, dead Tom's ashes are held for ransom, and DeeDee changes men faster than models change clothes. One is never quite sure what her goals are, other than Get Away. There's a lot of reflection about the nature of love vs sex and it's all pretty much rubbish.
There are a few great one-liners and a few scenes that are good on their own but overall, the film is pretty crap. The plot is overcomplicated, leaving little time for real character development and I found its flippancy grating. Maybe in '98 it would have been edgy but it does not stand up well in 2011.
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