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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 18

Cast Mickey Rourke Kim Basinger Margaret Whitton David Marguiles

Directors Adrian Lyne

Screenwriters Sarah Kernochan Zalman King

Running Time 112 minutes

Nine 1/2 Weeks
How to follow up Flashdance? Stick Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger under the covers, or on the kitchen floor, for that matter, and point the camera for two hours.

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Plot
A financial executive, John (Rourke), and an art gallery assistant, Elizabeth (Basinger), try to fill up their empty existences with a crash course in sex with an utter stranger. This leads, as you might expect, to sex every which way they can, but, as they discover, is perhaps not the basis for a long-term relationship.

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