9 1/2 Weeks

Plot

The title refers to the duration of the relationship between self-absorbed Wall Street shark Mickey Rourke and divorced art gallery owner Kim Basinger. Kim is looking for true love, while Mickey is searching for...gosh knows what. His notions of lovemaking include blindfolds, ice cubes, chocolate syrup, and rolling around on spent peanut shells. When the alotted 9 1/2 weeks are up, Kim has finally come to realize that Rourke has been using her. We could have told her that twenty minutes into the film. One of the definitive works in the Mickey Rourke ouevre, 9 1/2 Weeks is deliciously awful, and as such will probably endure as a Camp Classic for the next hundred years. The film is available in both R-rated and unrated versions; either way, it's a hoot. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

• Mickey Rourke - John
• Kim Basinger - Elizabeth
• Margaret Whitton - Molly
• David Margulies - Harvey
• Christine Baranski - Thea

Karen Young - Sue; William de Acutis - Ted; Dwight Weist - Farnsworth; Roderick Cook - Sinclair, the Critic; Kim Chan - Chinatown Butcher; Peter Pagan

Credit

Linda Conaway-Parsloe - Art Director, Aude Bronson-Howard - Costume Designer, Bobbie Read - Costume Designer, Adrian Lyne - Director, Caroline Biggerstaff - Editor, Tom Rolf - Editor, Kim Secrist - Editor, Mark Winitsky - Editor, Keith Barish - Executive Producer, Frank Konigsberg - Executive Producer, Michael Hoenig - Composer (Music Score), Jack Nitzsche - Composer (Music Score), Kenneth Ian Davis - Production Designer, Peter Biziou - Cinematographer, Antony Rufus Isaacs - Producer, Zalman King - Producer, Christian Kelly - Set Designer, Sarah Kernochan - Screenwriter, Zalman King - Screenwriter, Patricia Knop - Screenwriter, Elizabeth McNeill - Book Author

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