9 1/2 Weeks VHS Video Tape Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger Erotic Drama

This listing is for 9 1/2 Weeks VHS Video Tape Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger.

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies, Christine Baranski

Director: Adrian Lyne

Producers: Antony Rufus-Isaacs, Frank Konigsberg, Keith Barish

Writers: Elizabeth McNeill, Patricia Louisianna Knop, Sarah Kernochan, Zalman King  

MPAA rating: ‎R (Restricted)

Media Format: Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC

Release date: 1986

Run time: 1 hour and 57 minutes

Studio: MGM/UA Studios

Frequently given short shrift as a blue movie (which it is) and as mindless (which it isn't), director Adrian Lyne's follow-up to Flashdance (insert own joke here) is a thoughtful, smutty film about a bad sexual relationship. It follows the two-month affair between Elizabeth, an art-gallery dealer, and John, a Wall Street exec. The relationship spirals downward into raunchier sex (filmed, by the way, quite nicely) but principally is about two adults doing adult things but not acting anything like real adults. Attempts at actual human connection, about the longing to be "good," are present here and make this an above-average erotic film. Rourke is just honing his scumbag, bad-boy persona; but it doesn't overwhelm. Lots and lots of Kim Basinger.

9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. The film follows a New York City art gallery employee (Basinger) who has a brief yet intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street broker (Rourke). The screenplay by Patricia Knop, Zalman King, and Sarah Kernochan is adapted from the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day, under the pseudonym "Elizabeth McNeill". Principal photography was completed in August 1984, but the film was not released until February 1986. Considered too explicit by its American distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 9½ Weeks was heavily edited for release in the United States, where it was a box-office bomb, grossing $6.7 million on a $17 million budget. It also received mixed reviews at the time of its release. However, its soundtrack sold well and the film itself became a huge success internationally in its unedited version, particularly in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, grossing $100 million worldwide. It has also acquired a large fanbase on video and DVD and has developed a cult following.

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