Themes: Infidelity, Crumbling Marriages, Love Triangles
Main Cast: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Ming-Na Wen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kyle MacLachlan
Release Year: 1997
Country: US
Run Time: 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
A man's brief fling threatens to ruin what he values most in life in this drama. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) lives in California, where he has a successful career directing television commercials and is happily married to Mimi (Ming-Na Wen), with whom he has two children. While visiting New York City, Max meets Karen (Nastassja Kinski) by chance after missing a flight; circumstances keep bringing them together over the course of the evening, and they end up spending the night making love. When he returns home, Max seems distant and unhappy, though Mimi can't tell why and Max won't say. A year later, Max and Mimi fly to New York to visit his close friend Charlie (Robert Downey, Jr.), who is in the last stages of an AIDS-related illness. Max meets Charlie's brother Vernon (Kyle MacLachlan) and is introduced to his new wife -- Karen. Facing Karen sends Max into an emotional tailspin, and he realizes that he must tell Mimi the truth about his indiscretion. Writer/director Mike Figgis adapted One Night Stand from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, though Figgis' changes were so extensive that Eszterhas chose to remove his name from the project. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Barry Kingston - Art Director, Nancy Foy - Casting, Enid Harris - Costume Designer, Laura Goldsmith - Costume Designer, Gary Scott Marcus - First Assistant Director, Mike Figgis - Director, John Smith - Editor, Michael De Luca - Executive Producer, Robert Engelman - Executive Producer, Richard Saperstein - Executive Producer, Mike Figgis - Composer (Music Score), Waldemar Kalinowski - Production Designer, Declan Quinn - Cinematographer, Mike Figgis - Producer, Ben Myron - Producer, Annie Stewart - Producer, Florence Fellman - Set Designer, Pawel Wdowczak - Sound/Sound Designer, Joe Eszterhas - Screenwriter, Mike Figgis - Screenwriter, Mark Taylor - Re-Recording Mixer
One Night Stand is a 1997drama film by British director Mike Figgis. The first draft of the screenplay was written by Joe Eszterhas, who had his name removed from the project following Figgis' rewrite.
Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) lives in California, where he has a successful career directing television commercials and is happily married to Mimi (Ming-Na Wen), with whom he has two children. While visiting New York City, Max meets Karen (Nastassja Kinski) by chance after missing a flight; circumstances keep bringing them together over the course of the evening, and they end up spending the night having sex. When he returns home, Max seems distant and unhappy, though Mimi can't tell why and Max won't say. A year later, Max and Mimi fly to New York to visit his close friend Charlie (Robert Downey, Jr.), who is in the last stages of an AIDS-related illness. Max meets Charlie's brother Vernon (Kyle MacLachlan) and is introduced to his new wife — Karen. Facing Karen sends Max into an emotional tailspin, and he realizes that he must tell Mimi the truth about his indiscretion.
Eszterhas was paid $4 million for his script. In his memoir Hollywood Animal, he states that at first he could not understand why New Line, the company who produced the film, would risk alienating a screenwriter whom they had paid a record amount of money to by allowing the director to rewrite the screenplay. He said that years later a New Line executive stated that Figgis was allowed to alter the script because the director had just scored a major success with his film Leaving Las Vegas, while Eszterhas' notorious Showgirls had flopped at the box office.
