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Nine ? Weeks (1985)

Director: Adrian Lyne

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From Time Out Film Guide

Adrian (Flashdance) Lyne's steamy saga of amour fou hardly bears up to the inevitable Last Tango comparisons. He, a slimline, ultracool Mickey Rourke, is a self-satisfied commodities broker. She, sultry yet sweet Kim Basinger, is a recently divorced art gallery gal. She believes love is unimportant until meeting him, and then his teasing request, 'Will you do this for me?', cues a decorative series of sexual variations in search of a theme. Lyne works hard to give their naughty games a glossy veneer - streams of light and water, jagged editing, rock music to seduce by - but prefers to leave the audience to work out the psychology. The film has evidently gone through innumerable revisions, and little remains that is truly daring for the jaded '80s. Bump and grind for the Porsche owner.

Author: DT 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • Giuseppe Paolo Mazzarello said...
    Posted on Oct 10 2009 10:14 A top manager corrupts a manager girl of an art gallery. The girl in her white lingerie launches into a strip-tease in front of him. In 9 1/2 weeks that guy could despoil even a whole bank.
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Cast & crew

Director: Adrian Lyne

Producer: Anthony Rufus-Isaacs, Zalman King

Cast: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies, Christine Baranski, Karen Young full cast

Duration: 117 mins

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