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'''''Just a Little Harmless Sex''''' is a 1999 American [[Romantic comedy|romantic]] [[sex comedy]] film which revolves around a stranded motorist (and [[Prostitution|prostitute]])'s offer to perform [[oral sex]] on a monogamous man who stops to help her. The unlikely [[Parable of the Good Samaritan|good Samaritan]] must telephone his wife to bail him out in the middle of the night upon his arrest for the encounter. She throws him out of the house just a few days later and goes out with her friends to enjoy a sexy night on the town. The denouement takes place when all the parties meet at a local nightclub for explanations and apologies. The film was directed by [[Rick Rosenthal]], written by Roger Mills and [[Marti Noxon]], and stars [[Alison Eastwood]] and [[Jonathan Silverman]].
 
The film received generally poor reviews from critics, with a [[Rotten Tomatoes]] rating of 20% derived from five professional reviews.<ref>{{cite web|title=Just a Little Harmless Sex (1999)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/just_a_little_harmless_sex|website=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdateaccess-date=21 May 2015}}</ref> Writing for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Lawrence Van Gelder]] compared the film to a TV [[sitcom]], and said the movie was "well cast, well acted and thoroughly inconsequential".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Van Gelder|first1=Lawrence|authorlink1=Lawrence Van Gelder|title=Just A Little Harmless Sex (1999)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=980CE2DC1638F932A25755C0A96F958260|accessdateaccess-date=21 May 2015|work=The New York Times|date=11 June 1999}}</ref> Writing for ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', Lael Loewenstein said "what saves [the film] from being utterly predictable is its zesty dialogue".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Loewenstein|first1=Lael|title=Review: ‘Just'Just a Little Harmless Sex’Sex'|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/just-a-little-harmless-sex-1117499882/|accessdateaccess-date=21 May 2015|work=Variety|date=11 June 1999}}</ref>
 
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