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Directed by Adrian Lyne...
...last is more than a glib question, for 9 1/2 Weeks, the movie everyone is purportedly talking about, has got to be the most torporific cinematic experience in recent memory. And one can thank Adrian Lyne for making the impossible happen: turning a potentially torrid sado-masochistic relationship between a beautiful supermodel (Kim Basinger) and a stud actor (Mickey Rourke) into an emotional and sexual wasteland...
Nearly everyone who has ever had to choose between two attractive jobs has yearned, at least for a moment, to take them both. Adrian Hall actually did it. When the Dallas Theater Center asked him three years ago to become its artistic director, Hall said he would come only if he could also continue to run Trinity Repertory in Providence, which he founded in 1964. Now, like Persephone in the Greek myth, Hall spends half the year in a sun-baked Texas financial center and the other half in a gray, run-down, working-class corner of Rhode Island...
...happens, somebody did before they started editing this picture for an R rating. But all that is now playing is the decadent decor, some menacing portents and a pair of actors (Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger) looking for their motivations in various chic Manhattan locales. Adrian Lyne, late of Flashdance, directed this silliness, and three writers watched their script fall victim to the death of a thousand cuts. Maybe they should have photographed that...
...unlikely bunch consists of the Countess and her husband, Count Yerblessings (Ron Duvernay) and their liege Sir Vance Entrance (David Chase, who also wrote the rollicking score) and his wife Rhea Entrance (Adrian Blake). Plus their two ill-matched offspring, engaged to be married: Chrysler le Baron (Erick Neher) and Ethel Alcohol (George Zlupko). Chrysler, to put it mildly, is a disappointment to his amazon mother. And even his father gets exasperated with his poetry spouting and inability to dig warfare: "Chrysler, why can't you be more like Rambo?" Ethel's not much help. She's busy with...