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Love & Intimacy

Lie With Me (2005)

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Love & Intimacy Lauren Lee Smith English Canada 58m

Two gorgeous commitment-phobes try to keep things strictly sexual, only to discover that the naked body is much easier to expose than the heart.

Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) is a sexually fearless Toronto twentysomething who treats men like takeaway food: choose one, enjoy him while he is hot, then toss the packaging before feelings make a mess. At a crowded party she locks eyes with David (Eric Balfour), an equally brazen animal who watches her take charge of another man while he is busy with his girlfriend. Their mutual voyeurism soon becomes pursuit, teasing and, eventually, the kind of torrid affair that makes keeping your clothes on seem absurd. At first Leila believes she controls the arrangement: no biography, no promises, no emotional invoices arriving later. David, however, wants dates, tenderness and some proof that he matters beyond the next orgasm. As they begin spending time together, she meets his funny, ailing father and sees a softness in David that complicates her...