Synopsis
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
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Cast
- Mickey RourkeJohn
- Kim BasingerElizabeth
- Margaret WhittonMolly
- David MarguliesHarvey
- Christine BaranskiThea
- Karen YoungSue
- Dwight WeistFarnsworth
- Roderick CookSinclair - the Critic
- Victor TruroGallery Client
- Justine JohnstonBedding Saleswoman
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
A project of this sort depends crucially on the chemistry between its actors, and Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke develop an erotic tension in this movie that is convincing, complicated and sensual. - 88
Boston Globe
This rather simple story, played with stunning conviction by Rourke and Basinger, achieves its apex through director Adrian Lyne's steamy direction. Yet, it's not nasty enough. [14 Mar 1986, p.11] - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
There is something very wrong with the attempt of Nine 1/2 Weeks to excite the sensualists and appease the moralists at the same time. Most of the sex is fairly mild, but there are hints of what Nine 1/2 Weeks must have been before Lyne was forced to recut it. [21 Feb 1986, p.C1] - 60
Empire
Erotic at times, certainly, but that's down to the appeal of it's stars and not the minimal clean lines vs. heavenly bodies approach of director Adrian Lyne. - 60
Wall Street Journal
The movie that remains is lovely to look at, but spiritless, a listless coquette. But then, 9 1/2 Weeks isn't about talk. It isn't about sadomasochism. It isn't even about sex. It's about looking good. [20 Feb 1986, p.1] - 50
Chicago Reader
Despite a monotonously fashionable mise-en-scene, Lyne generates some genuine erotic tension between his two stars; you believe in their obsessive relationship, even as most of the action and staging registers as ridiculous. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
As so often happens in Hollywood, what is advertised as daring and provocative turns out to be glib, essentially tame, and largely soporific. - 50
The New York Times
In 9 1/2 Weeks, he has created a work that might well qualify as a truly nouveau film. Here is a movie in which actors impersonating characters are blended into the decor so completely that they take on the properties of animated products, no more or less important than exquisitely photographed strawberries.[21 Feb 1986, p.C17]
