![]() ![]() ![]() The plot is bizarre and perhaps sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. Three stars, mostly for naked leatherboy Bill. SYNOPSIS: A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Forget the cheesy dialogue and bizarre plot, just sit back with a glass of cognac and watch Bill turn up the heat. Black leather and sunglasses and tight see-through tee-shirt. The black leather pants don’t hurt, either. O’Malley’s something of a Neanderthal, but he doesn’t come off too badly considering that Helena’s a stone bitch and Dr. ![]() As for Bill, his role as Ray O’Malley, Helena’s obnoxious boyfriend, isn’t large, but it certainly is showy. I don’t know that I would say it was a good movie, but it is fascinatingly weird and compelling in a train-wreck sort of way, and any movie with “Nessun Dorna” in it can’t be all bad. The twisted little tale of a neurotic surgeon so obsessed with a beautiful woman that he would do anything-including commit mayhem-to keep her with him, this film by Jennifer Chambers Lynch (David Lynch’s daughter) spawned lawsuits and bad press and was almost universally reviled even before it came out. “There’s nothing sexual about being on a set with seventy people watching you, you know… I mean, I’m an exhibitionist-more of an introverted extrovert-but it doesn’t raise the flag, as it were…” ![]()
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