A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
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- 2 nominations
Carlinhos de Jesus
- Conga Line Leader
- (as Carlinhos Jesus)
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- TriviaMickey Rourke and Carré Otis were a couple at the time this film was made, and there is a persistent rumor that the sex scenes were not faked.
- GoofsAt around 0.21.00, overwhelmed Emily says "It must be the jet lag", which doesn't make sense, because the time difference between New York and Rio de Janeiro is only one hour.
- Quotes
Emily Reed: It must be jet lag. My emotions are getting the best of me.
- Alternate versionsR-rated version runs 106 min. the more explicit unrated version is 111 min.
- SoundtracksElegibô (Uma História De Ifá)
Written by Ythamar Tropicália and Rey Zulu
Performed by Margareth Menezes
Featured review
There is more, I think, to this film than most people give it credit for. Sure, it's full of sex and naked people, but it also manages to be erotic and sensual at the same time. It's certainly not the commercialized absurdity that you'll find late night on certain premium channels. More than that, though, is that it's a decent psychological study of a man who's completely divorced himself from reality. Like so many celebs of our time, money and success has allowed him to distance himself from whatever parts of reality that make him uncomfortable. Emily's naive and honest approach manages to reach him. His speech near the end, before the final 'scene,' is really impressive, and Mikey really is a great actor. Sure, Ms. Otis leaves something to be desired, but she's working in a role where her lack of comfort helps the part. Emily is out of her element, just is the actress playing her is, and even if this makes her transparent, it also makes her believable. Jaqueline Bisset is wonderful as always. All in all, if you watch this film without fast forwarding from sex scene to sex scene, you'll see a fairly human story mixed with a sexual journey that I think Zora Neale Hurston would have appreciated.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,060,485
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,622,637
- Apr 29, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $11,060,485
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