Grotesquely misconceived.
Boxing Helena (1993)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:6
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Dr. Nick Cavanaugh 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... Dr. Nick Cavanaugh 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. [More]
Starring: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Art Garfunkel
Starring: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Art Garfunkel, Betsy Clark, Kurtwood Smith
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Director: Jennifer Lynch
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Reviews for Boxing Helena
The film is superficial and silly, unsuccessful in all of the various tones she attempts.
Fairly provocative and not nearly as bad as critics claimed when it was released, but still intellectually half-baked.
Prior to its world premiere at Sundance, Boxing Helena, the debut of David Lynch's daughter Jennifer, was the hottest film in the festival; two hours later, the movie was dead.
s. Lynch has both talent and a point. Her film is by no means the gory, exploitative quasi-pornography that it sounds like from afar.
Helena might have been salvageable as a so-bad-it's-good camp goof -- if only it weren't so boring.
Fenn's slow-motion fountain-bathing scene looks like an over-the-top TV commercial, the cop-out finale is a film-school cliche, and the male characters are so one-dimensional and pathetic that the movie could inspire a Men's Action Coalition.
There are some problems with this story, but it does show promise for Lynch.
Engagingly morbid with moments of power--that is, until it falls apart beyond repair during its final moments.
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