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Dominican Rep. Boxing Helena
- Original title
- Boxing Helena
- Year
- 1993
- Running time
- 105 min.
- Country
United States- Director
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- Genre
- Drama | Independent Film (US)
- Synopsis
- Top surgeon Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) grew up at the mercy of his mocking, sensual, and neglectful mother. As an adult, he fantasizes about women who entice, taunt, and reject him and finds the epitome of cold calculation in Helena, a one-night stand who wants nothing more to do with him. When a serious car accident leaves Helena unconscious, he takes advantage of the situation by bringing her into his home--and using his surgical skills to amputate her arms and legs. Then Nick sets her up in a box as an object of his adoration. But even boxing Helena won't get Nick Cavanaugh what he wants...and he has to keep upping the ante in a cruel psychological and physical battle.
- Awards
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1993: Razzie Awards: Worst Director1993: Sundance Film Festival: nominated to Grand Jury Prize - Best Picture U.S..
- Critics' reviews
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"This film has all the pyschological depth of a wading pool. Anything you've imagined without seeing the " Read full review
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"Just awful. But uniquely awful -- awful in a way that might just attract a cult audience."
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"A two-hour stink bomb, Boxing Helena is a pitifully pervy piece of work."
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"Lynch has nowhere to take her erotic parable except to a dead end, but she makes the unfolding of the story a spooky, engrossing process"
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"What Lynch, who wrote the script at 19, sees as high drama is really high camp. And Fenn seems clueless on how to play her limbless character."
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"A gruesome tale of obsessive love and mutilation, it's less a work of art, however, than a luridly stylish expression of female self-loathing"
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"There are plenty of laughs here, but nary a one is intentional"
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