Boxing Helena
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Kurtwood Smith, Art Garfunkel
Directed By: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792849346
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0792849345
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-04-10
Running Time: 107
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1993-09-03
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Summary: NOT A FEMALE ROCKY BALBOA
Comment: Did you hear about the one where a scorned, wanna-be lover amputates the arms and legs of the object of his desire, and this limbless wonder is then kept in a display box on his piano? This is the one and it isn't as much fun as it sounds. Turns out the whole movie is a dream. Now that's funny! You waste both your time and money. Keep this box closed.
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Summary: Far any Sherilyn Fenn fan, A MUST.
Comment: A hate it or love it film, I would have to agree. But if your fan of Fenn, then this your movie. It's a rather slow and meticulous movie, but with the excellent photography and flat-out-I-saw-it-coming end, it's not all that bad as reviewers say it is.
You get great shots of Sherilyn in the buff, as well as Nicole Scorsese (No relation to Martin), this is just an erotic suspence flick, that, if you give enough time, you may enjoy.
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Summary: Obsession in a Box
Comment: "Boxing Helena" is the pretentious art house disaster that simultaneously began and ended Jennifer Lynch's directorial career. Wanting to follow in her father David's footsteps, Jennifer focused on the freakish. She cast Julian Sands as an uptight Englishman with mother issues,and gave Art Garfunkel his last screen appearance so far.
Julian Sands is a doctor who grew up in the shadow of the Venus de Milo and his rejecting,promiscuous mother. Of course,he's an excitable boy. He falls in love with his neighbor Helena (Sherilyn Fenn,in a role that Kim Basinger rightly rejected) She frolics in the fountain at his party,since this is an art house movie. He sees her treat her boyfriend (Bill Paxton,as a redneck) terribly. Still,he's smitten. He causes a "convenient" accident,nursing her in his home. It becomes surreal as Sands removes Fenn's limbs. There are some "erotic" love scenes,but they'll cause derisive rather than ecstatic laughter. In the end, Sands wakes up;it's all been a dream. And a nightmare for the audience. It's as sensual as MSG-saturated boxed Chinese restaurant leftovers.
"Boxing Helena" deserves to stay in its box.
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Summary: A Farewell To Arms....And Legs
Comment: This is a hard movie to defend, so most of the time I don't even bother to try. I really won't even try now, but just say that I really like this movie and I'm not sure why. It's reputation as a lousy film is almost legendary. Of course when you consider Michael Bay's filmography, you might want to re-evaluate this movie, or maybe not.
Julian Sands(an actor I love) is a rich surgeon obsessed with a woman he had a one nighter with. The woman, Helena, is played by Sherilyn Fenn, so it's easy to understand his obsession. However, Helena is a crass, mean, all around unpleasant woman who's on the search solely for boytoys. Julian's attempts to lure her in result in her being hit by a car. He now has the perfect opportunity to posses her as he brings her back to his home and begins a process of dismembering her. Julian quits his job and cuts off communication with his friends, even dumping his girlfriend so he can take care of Helena. She throws endless insults at him, screams at him, belittles him, and it makes you wonder just what it is that he's so in love with. Psychological games are played out between the two, and soon some sex is thrown into the mix(Sands brings home one of his tasty looking nurses and makes Helena watch him have sex with her to everybody's favorite Enigma song, Sadness Part 1). Meanwhile, Helena's sortaboyfriend, Bill Paxton, is trying to find out what happened to her. Now, this plot may sound kinda grim and gruesome, but it really isn't quite as demented as you'd think. I don't know why, but the movie sort of reminds me of one of those softcore Skinemax type movies even though there isn't much sex in it. Sands gives a decent performance, but his character is such a pathetic, whiny, lovestruck schmuck that you just wish you could reach into the tv and smack him one. As usual, Fenn will make your eyes bug out like something from a Looney Tunes cartoon. Yummy!! Apparently Madonna was originally supposed to have this role, and then the role went to Kim Basinger after Madonna dropped out. Personally I'm glad neither of them got it coz Fenn's my baby.
So no, I can't honestly recommend this movie to people coz the numbers say you might not care much for this one. I'm just here to tell you that I like it. So there.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just Odd
Comment: Julian Sands notwithstanding, this is a very odd movie - lives up to it's director's name (Jennifer Lynch is David's daughter), but something's missing - very near soft-core porn.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: NOT A FEMALE ROCKY BALBOA
Comment: Did you hear about the one where a scorned, wanna-be lover amputates the arms and legs of the object of his desire, and this limbless wonder is then kept in a display box on his piano? This is the one and it isn't as much fun as it sounds. Turns out the whole movie is a dream. Now that's funny! You waste both your time and money. Keep this box closed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Far any Sherilyn Fenn fan, A MUST.
Comment: A hate it or love it film, I would have to agree. But if your fan of Fenn, then this your movie. It's a rather slow and meticulous movie, but with the excellent photography and flat-out-I-saw-it-coming end, it's not all that bad as reviewers say it is.
You get great shots of Sherilyn in the buff, as well as Nicole Scorsese (No relation to Martin), this is just an erotic suspence flick, that, if you give enough time, you may enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Obsession in a Box
Comment: "Boxing Helena" is the pretentious art house disaster that simultaneously began and ended Jennifer Lynch's directorial career. Wanting to follow in her father David's footsteps, Jennifer focused on the freakish. She cast Julian Sands as an uptight Englishman with mother issues,and gave Art Garfunkel his last screen appearance so far.
Julian Sands is a doctor who grew up in the shadow of the Venus de Milo and his rejecting,promiscuous mother. Of course,he's an excitable boy. He falls in love with his neighbor Helena (Sherilyn Fenn,in a role that Kim Basinger rightly rejected) She frolics in the fountain at his party,since this is an art house movie. He sees her treat her boyfriend (Bill Paxton,as a redneck) terribly. Still,he's smitten. He causes a "convenient" accident,nursing her in his home. It becomes surreal as Sands removes Fenn's limbs. There are some "erotic" love scenes,but they'll cause derisive rather than ecstatic laughter. In the end, Sands wakes up;it's all been a dream. And a nightmare for the audience. It's as sensual as MSG-saturated boxed Chinese restaurant leftovers.
"Boxing Helena" deserves to stay in its box.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Farewell To Arms....And Legs
Comment: This is a hard movie to defend, so most of the time I don't even bother to try. I really won't even try now, but just say that I really like this movie and I'm not sure why. It's reputation as a lousy film is almost legendary. Of course when you consider Michael Bay's filmography, you might want to re-evaluate this movie, or maybe not.
Julian Sands(an actor I love) is a rich surgeon obsessed with a woman he had a one nighter with. The woman, Helena, is played by Sherilyn Fenn, so it's easy to understand his obsession. However, Helena is a crass, mean, all around unpleasant woman who's on the search solely for boytoys. Julian's attempts to lure her in result in her being hit by a car. He now has the perfect opportunity to posses her as he brings her back to his home and begins a process of dismembering her. Julian quits his job and cuts off communication with his friends, even dumping his girlfriend so he can take care of Helena. She throws endless insults at him, screams at him, belittles him, and it makes you wonder just what it is that he's so in love with. Psychological games are played out between the two, and soon some sex is thrown into the mix(Sands brings home one of his tasty looking nurses and makes Helena watch him have sex with her to everybody's favorite Enigma song, Sadness Part 1). Meanwhile, Helena's sortaboyfriend, Bill Paxton, is trying to find out what happened to her. Now, this plot may sound kinda grim and gruesome, but it really isn't quite as demented as you'd think. I don't know why, but the movie sort of reminds me of one of those softcore Skinemax type movies even though there isn't much sex in it. Sands gives a decent performance, but his character is such a pathetic, whiny, lovestruck schmuck that you just wish you could reach into the tv and smack him one. As usual, Fenn will make your eyes bug out like something from a Looney Tunes cartoon. Yummy!! Apparently Madonna was originally supposed to have this role, and then the role went to Kim Basinger after Madonna dropped out. Personally I'm glad neither of them got it coz Fenn's my baby.
So no, I can't honestly recommend this movie to people coz the numbers say you might not care much for this one. I'm just here to tell you that I like it. So there.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just Odd
Comment: Julian Sands notwithstanding, this is a very odd movie - lives up to it's director's name (Jennifer Lynch is David's daughter), but something's missing - very near soft-core porn.
Fantasy, desire and manipulation make for a savory-yet-volatile cocktail in this psychological thriller about a woman held captive by a man who loves her. First-time writer-director Jennifer ChambersLynch (The Diary of Laura Palmer) brings "stylistic flair" (The Washington Post) to this haunting, erotic tale of love and lust that straddles the fine line between devotion and obsession. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands, Timecode) is a brilliant surgeon who seems to haveit allmoney, looks, prestigebut all he wants is someone he can't have a voluptuous, cold-hearted seductress: Helena (Sherilyn Fenn, Three of Hearts). After Nick fails to impress her withhis wealth, Helena is struck down by a hit-and-run driver outside his mansion. The good doctor saves her life by amputating her legs, then seizes the opportunity of her immobility to hold her prisoner. Now, he's in control of Helena's body, but not her mind, for this shrewd, quick-thinking vixen ishellbent on keeping Nick on his toes in order to foil his selfish plan to have her not only as a trophy wife but his personal Venus de Milo.
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