Stars: Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies, Karen Young, Christine Baranski, Roderick Cook

Director: Adrian Lyne

Summary: Stylish, highly-charged erotic psychodrama in which a mysterious businessman and a beautiful art dealer meet and are swept up in a whirlwind of passion, manipulation, and obsessive sex. Not for kids, the timid, or people on a diet.

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Frequently given short shrift as soft porn (which it is) and as mindless (which it isn't), director Adrian Lyne's follow-up to Flashdance(insert own joke here) is a thoughtful, smutty film about a bad sexual relationship. It follows the two-month affair between Elizabeth, an art-gallery dealer, and John, a Wall Street executive. The relationship spirals downward into raunchier sex (filmed, by the way, quite nicely) but principally is about two adults doing adult things but not acting anything like real adults. Attempts at actual human connection, about the longing to be "good", are present here and make this an above-average erotic film. Rourke is just honing his scumbag, bad-boy persona; but it doesn't overwhelm. At least there's lots and lots of Kim Basinger. --Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical, Interactive Menus, Scene Access
Year:	1985
Release Date:	February 4, 2002
Runtime:	112 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	06162 D V D
Keywords:	Weeks, Adult, General, Wide, Screen, Drama
Genre:	Drama