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Boxing Helena (1993)
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Release Date:
3 September 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
Beyond love, beyond obsession, there hides something beyond reason. more
Plot:
A surgeon becomes obsessed with the seductive woman he once had an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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1 nomination
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(52 articles)
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With a bigger budget and some directorial finesse, "Boxing Helena" might've been a contender...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Julian Sands | ... | Dr. Nick Cavanaugh |
 | Sherilyn Fenn | ... | Helena |
 | Bill Paxton | ... | Ray O'Malley |
 | Kurtwood Smith | ... | Dr. Alan Harrison |
 | Art Garfunkel | ... | Dr. Lawrence Augustine |
| Betsy Clark | ... | Anne Garrett |
| Nicolette Scorsese | ... | Fantasy Lover / Nurse |
| Meg Register | ... | Marion Cavanaugh |
| Bryan Smith | ... | Russell |
| Marla Levine | ... | Patricia |
| Kim Lentz | ... | Nurse Diane |
| Lloyd T. Williams | ... | Sam the Clerk |
 | Carl Mazzocone Sr. | ... | Pastor |
| Erik Shoaff | ... | Uncle Charlie |
| Lisa Oz | ... | Flower Shop Girl |
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MPAA:
Rated R on appeal for two scenes of strong sexuality and language.
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Runtime:
107 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Argentina:18 |
Singapore:R21 |
Philippines:R-18 |
USA:Unrated (DVD version) |
Australia:R |
Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:NC-17 (original rating) |
USA:R (certificate #32233) (re-rating on appeal) |
Iceland:16
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Jennifer Chambers Lynch wrote the screenplay when she was 19 years old.
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Revealing mistakes: When Nick Cavanaugh is on the phone in a telephone box, the camera spins around the box. The reflection on all four sides of the phone box is identical indicating that the phone box is surrounded on all four sides by the same building with the same neon light.
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Quotes:
Ray O'Malley:
Hasta whatever!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Dharma & Greg: Boxing Dharma (#4.9)" (2000)
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Soundtrack:
I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME
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Poorly-made, scrappy and off-putting erotic drama executed without the courage of its own idea. Lurid story concerns an obsessed surgeon's relationship with an indifferent vixen. Amusing in parts, the film occasionally goes out on the proverbial limb, but it's also messy and unfocused. Perhaps the behind-the-scenes troubles with original star Kim Basinger got in director Jennifer Lynch's way. In any event, Lynch hasn't been given the chance to purge this demon from her resume...one look at it and you'll know why. It's a curious mix of sex, fantasy and horror, but so perplexing and muddled, the provocative angle of the whole scenario gets lost. *1/2 from ****