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9½ Weeks is a 1986 American drama, romance, and erotic film directed by Adrian Lyne. The screenplay was written by Sarah Kernochan and Zalman King, who also served as a producer alongside Mark Damon. The cast includes Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Margaret Whitton, and Christine Baranski. Peter Biziou was the director of photography, and Jack Nitzsche composed the score. Joe Cocker is listed as a performer. The film was produced by Jonesfilm, Galactic Films, Triple Ajaxxx, and PSO, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Netflix.
Set in New York City and Brooklyn, the movie has a runtime of 116 or 117 minutes. It was released in the United States on February 9, 1986, with other publication dates listed as February 14 and April 17, 1986. The film had a budget of $17,000,000 and generated $6,740,470 in revenue. Its tagline is "They Broke Every Rule." The work depicts sex in film and is available in video on demand format.
Critical reception included review scores of 5.7/10, 60%, and 50/100, with an IMDb rating of 5.9 based on 47,067 votes. TMDb lists a vote average of 6.116 from 1,127 votes. The film received nominations for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Original Song. It was followed by Love in Paris.
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6.1An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Cast
- Mickey Rourke as John
- Kim Basinger as Elizabeth
- Margaret Whitton as Molly
- David Margulies as Harvey
- Christine Baranski as Thea
- Karen Young as Sue
Themes
- new york city
- prostitute
- sexual obsession
- fetish
- eroticism
- women's sexual identity
- broker
- gallery owner
- sadomasochism
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Adrian Lyne
- Screenplay by
- Patricia Knop Zalman King Sarah Kernochan
- Based on
- Nine and a Half Weeks , by Elizabeth McNeill
- Produced by
- Antony Rufus-Isaacs Zalman King
- Starring
- Mickey Rourke Kim Basinger
- Cinematography
- Peter Biziou
- Edited by
- Caroline Biggerstaff Tom Rolf
- Music by
- Jack Nitzsche
- Production companies
- Galactic Films Jonesfilm Producers Sales Organization Triple Ajaxxx
- Distributed by
- MGM/UA Entertainment Co. (United States) PSO International (international)
- Release date
- February 21, 1986 ( 1986-02-21 )
- Running time
- 116 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English Spanish
- Budget
- $17 million
- Box office
- $100 million
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Encyclopedic overview
9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. The film follows New York City art gallery employee Elizabeth McGraw (Basinger) who has a brief yet intense affair with mysterious Wall Street broker John Gray (Rourke). The screenplay by Patricia Knop, Zalman King and Sarah Kernochan is adapted from the 1978 memoir Nine and a Half Weeks 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “9½ Weeks” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.