And God Created Woman (1988)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Roger Vadim

Writer:

R.J. Stewart (writer)

Release Date:

1 January 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

On the Seventh Day, He got Creative.

Plot:

In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French)...

Plot Keywords:

Remake Of French Film | Erotic | Remake By Original Director | Sham Marriage | Sex

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Rebecca De Mornay	...	Robin Shea
Vincent Spano	...	Billy Moran
Frank Langella	...	James Tiernan
Donovan Leitch	...	Peter Moran
Judith Chapman	...	Alexandra Tiernan
Jamie McEnnan	...	Timmy Moran
Benjamin Mouton	...	Blue
Dave Shelley	...	David
Einstein Brown	...	Einstein
David López	...	Hawk
Thelma Houston	...	Prison Singer
Gail Boggs	...	Denise
Dorian Sanchez	...	Alice
María Duval	...	Maxine
Lee Ann Martin	...	Shirley

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

South Korea:18 | UK:18 | Australia:R | Netherlands:12 (DVD) (2009) | Finland:K-16 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Randall Davey House - 1800 Upper Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Company:

Vestron Pictures

Trivia:

Roger Vadim also directed the original Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956).

Movie Connections:

Remake of Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956)

Soundtrack:

EL ESPEJO

Tame remake, of interest only for De Morney

In 1957, Roger Vadim caused a sensation and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international sex symbol with his scandalous film about a pouting, sexually uninhibited young woman who's got 'it' and knows how to flaunt 'it'. Scenes of Brigitte *almost* naked, and memorably gyrating on a table to the tango, pushed the censors to their limit, and delighted male audiences all over the world! Thirty year later Vadim attempted to repeat the success, and in Rebecca De Morney found a stunning actress worthy of comparison to Bardot. Sadly, it turned out to be a forgettable, surprisingly tame film, updated into a story about a girl with ambitions of getting out of prison and finding fame in a rock 'n' roll band. (Although after you've heard a few of their soft rock anthems, you may wish she was back behind bars). As in the original, the heroine strings a few men along, all useful to her in different ways, but this time she's no tease, just a brisk, modern woman with a career, keeping her men at a distance by turning hot and cold on them as it suits her.

As has been noted, there is ONE scene worth catching early on - Rebecca and Vincent Spano's 'brief encounter' in the prison gym. In the scene, Rebecca's breakout attempt has been foiled, and she needs to break back IN, but while changing back into her prison clothes she's spotted - naked - by a young prison carpenter (Spano). They hear some guards coming, and he helps hide her safely out of the way. In silence, Spano looks at the naked beauty before him (full-frontal De Morney! Wow!!), and she looks back with a mixture of gratitude and sexual hunger, and soon they're getting it on against the wall. This is the hottest sex scene of Rebecca's career!! There are a couple more later on - one on a pool table where she pushes Frank Langella's head between her thighs (nice work for some!), and one in bed, bumpin' 'n' grindin' naked on top of Spano (and revealing a figure in a million!) - but the one in the gym is the best.

Vadim had hoped this might do for De Morney what the original did for Bardot, but the film turned out to be a box-office dud, and she'd have to wait a few more years before her chilling performance in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle finally saw her deservedly hit the big time.