Wild Orchid
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Actor: Carre Otis, Mickey RourkeBrand: ROURKE,MICKEY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Wild Orchid
Movie Review: wild as it may seem
Summary: 5 Stars
this is the definitive zalman king classic which follows on the heels of o'rourke's last erotc drama 9 1/2 weeks. no, this is not a sequel & the two films have little in common. while orchid may be flawed, it is certainly an entertaining & beautiful film which i'm sure you could watch over & over. carre otis plays the newcomer here & she has the expressions down pat even though some of her lines are delivered quite like we'd hope. jacqueline bisset is beautiful & fun to watch even though most of the screen time is focused on o'rourke & otis, whom eventually married & divorced in real life. carre otis plays emily reed, who has just accepted a position as a legal assistant under bisset & the two are off to rio de janiero. yes, that's right! brazil!! it's everything you'd ever hoped it would be so mr. king did a wonderful job with the sights & sounds. brazil was truly a daydream come true. as i'm getting off the subject a bit here, bisset throws emily off of o'rourke by making her wear the dress he initially had given to her many years back. as you can guess, o'rourke does find ms. reed completely charming & attractive but somehow cannot bring himself to show his true emotions. in the beginning of the film, he is also unable to touch her as he is emotionally withdrawn from the world. will she ever be able to break through this exterior to find real wheeler inside(o'rourke) or will she not? like 9 1/2 or red shoe diaries which are both projects zalman has worked on, wild orchid is very erotic & almost what you might consider borderline softcore pornography although far more complex & even a bit artsy. if you love passionate love stories with a twist, then wild orchid is a must see. i have no favorite scenes to mention here as i love the film in it's entirety. at such an affordable price, you too should own wild orchid if you don't already. much love.
Summary of Wild Orchid
Set in the sultry splendor of Rio de Janeiro, Wild Orchid stars Mickey Rourke (9 1/2 Weeks), Jacqueline Bisset ("Joan of Arc") and supermodel CarrĂ(c) Otis in a "torrid" (Variety) adventure of the senses. Filled with "exotic settings" (The Hollywood Reporter), it is a hypnotic odyssey that will leave you breathless and spellbound. Beautiful young attorney Emily Reed (Otis) travels to Rio to work with international negotiator Claudia Lirones (Bisset) on a multimillion-dollar deal. But once exposed to the raw sensuality of her surroundings, Emily is increasingly drawn into a world of erotic fantasy. Eager to guide Emily through this underworld is Claudia's old flame Wheeler (Rourke). Mysterious and seductive, Wheeler unleashes Emily's most primitive desiresÂ...even as she threatens to unlock his world-weary heart.Back when he wasn't relegated to the lesser cable channels, soft-porn meister Zalman King uncorked this howler of a drama on moviegoers, who were initially titillated by the ratings battle, but then shrugged and went off in search of the next cheap sensation. Model and subsequent Mickey Rourke squeeze Carré Otis plays a brilliant young attorney--well, we're told she's brilliant, although watching her in action, straining to wrap those puffy lips around her legalese dialogue, definitely conjures up other adjectives. She's dispatched to Rio de Janeiro under the guise of real-estate law and ends up seduced both by the exotic culture and by a brooding, highly misunderstood and frighteningly orange-skinned multimillionaire (Rourke). Kinky (for the time) sex games and deliriously mannered dialogue make this a rather pretentious exercise, unleavened by any truly erotic sensuality. Fun for taunting purposes, though. --David Kronke
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