| Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger , Margaret
Whitton , David Margulies, Christine Baranski, Karen Young
The title refers to the duration of the relationship between self-absorbed
Wall Street shark Mickey Rourke and divorced art gallery owner Kim
Basinger. Kim is looking for true love, while Mickey is searching
for...gosh knows what. His notions of lovemaking include blindfolds,
ice cubes, chocolate syrup, and rolling around on spent peanut shells.
When the alotted 9 1/2 weeks are up, Kim has finally come to realize
that Rourke has been using her. We could have told her that twenty
minutes into the film. One of the definitive works in the Mickey
Rourke ouevre, 9 1/2 Weeks is deliciously awful, and as such will
probably endure as a Camp Classic for the next hundred years. |