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      Kissed

      R Released Apr 11, 1996 1 hr. 18 min. Romance List
      68% 22 Reviews Tomatometer 67% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score 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. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member You're in the path of something beyond your control We are kissed by life, love even death Molly Parker plays a teenager Sandra, she's always been fascinated by death Whether it's deceased animals even people As a mortician she's very much aroused by the dead bodies she tends to do it leads her to engage in necrophilia Later she meets medical student Matt in college therefore causing problems for her job and potential love-life Even after Sandra comes clean about her unhealthy lifestyle turning on the world of the living presents its own obstacle This covers one of the most disturbing fetishes mankind has ever conceived Oddly the two love interests try their hardest to reach an understanding why death is amazing, Sandra attempts to gather the dead's energy or transformation She's still compelled to cross over and experience the inexplicable moments Yet the film still could be about spirituality or even transcendence itself Not many people will truly comprehend what this woman does to feel complete Heck the stuff most are into is considered taboo; yet for all its repulsion it can be properly dissected Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Strange, sensitive, offbeat, touching. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautifully, thoughtfully shot. Patiently and brilliantly acted. Just stunning and interesting and magical. I don't know how I missed this one. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member This one didn't do anything for me. Of course there's the premise: necrophilia. But it's hard to feel anything for any of the characters because you're kept at arms length the entire time. (Which I suppose is for the best considering the subject matter.) But like the corpses Sandra does it with, you won't end up feeling anything. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member A woman with a fetish for dead things becomes infatuated with the bodies at the funeral home she works at and soon becomes sexually obsessed with them. Molly Parker is outstanding as a social outcast who believes that her obsession is a form of transcendence. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member This film stands out in the way that it non-exploitatively portrays necrophilia (and in particular, a female necrophile). That's not to say, though, that it condones or makes light of the desecration of corpses. It's just that a taboo subject such as necrophilia is more impactful when it is presented realistically, as opposed to being presented as a gory and violent horror film (which is probably what most other necrophilia-focused films are like). Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader 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. Rated: 2/4 Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Rated: C+ Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Globe and Mail Rated: 2.5/4 Apr 12, 2002 Full Review Michael Atkinson Spin 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. Apr 18, 2022 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Oct 1, 2005 Full Review Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette Rated: 4/5 Feb 8, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      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
      Executive Producer
      John Pozer
      Screenwriter
      Barbara Gowdy, Lynne Stopkewich
      Distributor
      Orion Pictures
      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
      Sound Mix
      Dolby