It's dark, attempts to be psycho-sexual (succeeds in the latter), and ends up just being rather sad. Boxing Helena [DVD] , Sprache : Englisch (Dolby Digital 5.1) & Englisch (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) Untertitel: Französisch Koreanisch Extras: Original Theatrical Trailer 2,35:1 (anamorph / 16:9) Boxing Helena (1993) Der junge und erfolgreiche Chirurg Nick verbringt eine Nacht mit der hypererotischen Helena. Photo Credits: Netflix; Pop TV; Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films; Fred Hayes/Disney+, Fox, PopTV; Bettina Strauss/Netflix; Nicole Rivelli/Amazon, Netflix, Frank Masi/Apple, Disney, Jasper Savage/Hulu; Diyah Pera/CW, What to Watch on Netflix Top 10 Rankings on November 5. It's the film that made legal history when its prospective star, Kim Basinger, was held liable for having got cold feet. (At one point, Madonna was also set to play the leading role.) The plot is bizarre and perhaps sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist. . Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. She appears to respond to him finally--but then Ray, suspicious over her disappearance, bursts into the. Der Film sorgte bereits vor Drehbeginn für einen Skandal. Ignore the severed limbs, and this is a story about love and obsession. Even without her arms, the cruel, beautiful Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) manages to hold all the cards. Sands is made to play his single-minded romantic as a spineless, groveling wimp, while. mansion. The movie itself has the curious effect of nullifying its own scandal, failing to succeed even on its own, affectedly unorthodox terms. Shocked to discover Helena's predicament, he attacks Nick and knocks him unconscious. . Faced with financial ruin, Basinger declared bankruptcy; to pay her bills, she had to sell the small Southern town she owned.

. Fortunately, Sands is able to buy him off with a letter of recommendation for Sands’ abandoned position as chief surgeon. As it turns out, Ms. Lynch has both talent and a point. The result could have been a weirdly compelling study of obsessive love and differing perceptions of beauty, but Lynch's fatal flaw is in her handling of the leads. The movie I watched, found interesting, if for nothing more than that it had Art Garfunkels big cool head in it. Die Regisseurin erhielt 1994 die Goldene Himbeere in der Kategorie Schlechteste Regie.

One of the more controversial films of 1993, BOXING HELENA became as notorious for what happened behind the scenes as what occurs onscreen. Basinger opted out of the project and was sued by producers who were initially awarded a whopping $8 million settlement for their troubles. Alas, Sands’ all-consuming lust for the former Audrey Horne is the only element of his character that’s remotely relatable. Or...Anyway, it's more interesting than a disaster film, so, you decide. Pour plus d’informations, voyez le projet Cinéma. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. When he stages a party at his mansion just to attract her over, she flaunts her own desirability by stepping into a fountain and then leaves with one of his friends. A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

And in its third act, Helena plunges deeper and deeper into a dream state. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.