Stars:
Wesley Snipes,
Nastassja Kinski,
Kyle MacLachlan,
Robert Downey Jr,
Ming-Na Wen,
Amanda Donohoe,
Donovan Leitch,
John Ratzenberger,
Julian Sands,
Ione Skye,
Glenn Plummer,
Zoe Nathenson,
Edita Brychta,
Xander Berkeley,
Thomas Haden Church,
Hans Tester,
Susan Barnes,
John Ratzenberger,
John Calley,
Joe Drago,
Mike Figgis,
Annabelle Gurwitch,
Malissa Jonas,
Thomas Kopache,
Margaret Makinen,
Richard Paradise,
Marcus Paulk,
Johanna Torell,
Natalie Trott,
Vincent Ward
Director:
Mike Figgis
Summary: Max is a happily married and successful man with two healthy children. However, on a business trip to New York, he meets the beautiful Karen and they embark on a brief affair. On his return home he finds his life different and he begins to withdraw from the people closest to him, even though he and Karen had vowed to forget the relationship. A year later he returns to New York to comfort his hospitalised best-friend and finds himself face-to-face with Karen...
ONE NIGHT STAND is director Mike Figgis's morality play about casual sex in the age of AIDS. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) travels to see his old friend Charlie (Robert Downey, Jr.) in New York and winds up in an act of infidelity with a beautiful stranger named Karen (Nastassja Kinski). Max's one night stand is not a source of fear or guilt, but rather a crisis that leads him to question the life he's built and is so easily convinced to betray. That life, as a family man and director of shallow commercials in Los Angeles, is best embodied in his demanding wife Mimi, a Hollywood socialite who only connects with her husband on apparently superficial levels. Mimi is played by Ming-Na Wen, who steals the show in her supporting role (except when Robert Downey, Jr. is on the screen, stealing the show even more in his supporting role as Max's friend, who is dying of AIDS). Making subtle use of his multiracial cast, writer-director Mike Figgis has crafted a dramatic tale about love, sex, and betrayal.