Kissed

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Kissed

R,

1996,

1h 18m,

Romance

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74%

19 Reviews

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67%

2,500+ Ratings

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74%

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19 Reviews

67%

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2,500+ Ratings

Teenager Sandra (Molly Parker) is obsessed with death, so much so that after wandering into a funeral home she wishes to be a mortician. But this fascination becomes highly sexual, as Sandra develops a taste for necrophilia. Her secret passion doesn't cause any problems until she goes to college and meets medical student Matt (Peter Outerbridge), who soon falls for the unusual young lady. She comes clean about her morbid sexuality, but turning her on to the world of the living is no easy task.

Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

Jun 15, 2022

2/4

Though Stopkewich has astutely recognized the contradictions in our uneasy relationship to the dead, she doesn’t seem to have examined her own uneasy relationship to the story she tells.

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Mike Clark

USA Today

Jan 1, 2000

3/4

This uncommonly assured feature debut takes a metaphysical view of necrophilia.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3/4

Kissed is about a necrophiliac, but in its approach, it could be about spirituality or transcendence.

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Michael Atkinson

Spin

Apr 18, 2022

Doomsaying about independent films... is this year's favorite kvetch, and yet movie hand grenades still manage to get tossed into our laps with astonishing regularity. Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed is a startling example.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Oct 1, 2005

3/5

Daniel M. Kimmel

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Feb 8, 2004

4/5

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Hermione S

Jan 21, 2019

Strange, sensitive, offbeat, touching.

Leia G

Aug 15, 2008

I'm still not quite sure what to think of this movie or what to say about it, only that it was much better than it could've been.

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Sandra Larson

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Synopsis

Teenager Sandra (Molly Parker) is obsessed with death, so much so that after wandering into a funeral home she wishes to be a mortician. But this fascination becomes highly sexual, as Sandra develops a taste for necrophilia. Her secret passion doesn't cause any problems until she goes to college and meets medical student Matt (Peter Outerbridge), who soon falls for the unusual young lady. She comes clean about her morbid sexuality, but turning her on to the world of the living is no easy task.

Director: Lynne Stopkewich
Producer: Lynne Stopkewich, Dean English
Screenwriter: Barbara Gowdy, Lynne Stopkewich
Distributor: Orion Pictures
Production Co: British Columbia Film
Rating: R
Genre: Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 11, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 22, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $465.4K
Runtime: 1h 18m
Sound Mix: Dolby

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