Themes: Love Triangles, Suicide, Romantic Betrayal
Main Cast: David Duchovny, Brigitte Bako, Billy Wirth
Release Year: 1992
Country: US
Run Time: 105 minutes
Plot
Soft-core drama czar Zalman King, creator of such erotic fictions as 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), Two Moon Junction (1988), and Wild Orchid (1990), directed this tale of doomed romance that served as the feature-length pilot for a long-running cable television series. David Duchovny stars as Jake Winters, an architect and city planner preparing to wed his fiancee, successful interior designer Alex (Brigitte Bako). What Jake doesn't know, however, is that the guilt-stricken Alex is carrying on a torrid affair with a macho construction worker and part-time shoe salesman named Tom (Billy Wirth). Torn desperately between her two lovers, Alex chronicles the relationships in her diary. After she commits suicide, a despondent Jake discovers the eye-opening journal and has a violent confrontation with Tom that leaves neither man with much emotional resolution. In an effort to understand women and his own grief, Jake places an anonymous advertisement in newspapers, encouraging women to confess their erotic secrets to him through the mail, and setting the stage for Red Shoe Diaries, the series. Although he was soon famous as the male lead in The X-Files, Duchovny honored his agreement with King to star in the adult series, appearing in wrap-around segments at the beginning and end of each episode. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Rhonda Aldrich - Michelle; Sherry Bilsing - Passing Woman; Geoffrey Hughes - Waiter #2; Suzanne Lanza - Woman in Coffee Shop; Cary Lowenstein - Waiter #1; Bridgit Ryan - Marlene; Tera Tabrizi - Alex's Friend; Brenda Vaccaro - Martha; Kai Wulff - Paul; Jeff Alan Young - Maitre d'; George S. Clinton - Piano Player; Charlotte Blunt - Lisa; Kate Williamson - Old Lady; Anna Karin - Heidi #1; Harry Cohn - Taxi Driver
Credit
Greta Grigorian - Art Director, James Gavin Bedford - Associate Producer, Ferne Cassel - Casting, Willi Baer - Co-producer, Birgit Hutter - Costume Designer, Zalman King - Director, Mark Damon - Executive Producer, Zalman King - Executive Producer, Patricia Knop - Executive Producer, George S. Clinton - Composer (Music Score), Marc Reshovsky - Cinematographer, Rafael Eisenman - Producer, David Saunders - Producer, Patricia Knop - Screenwriter, Hans Christian Andersen - Short Story Author
