Wild Orchid
by Zalman King
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Actor: Assumpta Serna, Bruce Greenwood, Carr? Otis, Jacqueline Bisset, Mickey RourkeDirector: Zalman King
Writer: Zalman King
Producer: Amy Kastens
Producer: David Saunders
Producer: Howard Worth
Producer: Jim Dyer
Producer: Lester Berman
Writer: Patricia Louisianna Knop
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, 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: Masterful exercise in the art of seduction
Summary: 4 Stars
One star off because the Rourke character is rich, millionaire rich. Had he been middle-class or upper-middle class, the seduction would have been more impressive. Another reason one star comes off is because there is only one good scene that he is not in, but since the seduction was realistic and the acting of Rourke is once again stellar, I can't give less than four stars. The Carre Otis character (Emily) is the hardest type of woman to seduce and Zalman King knows this: she is ambitious, hard-headed, conservative, and stunningly beautiful. Surely a woman like this is going to be a task to seduce and the Rourke character knows this. This is the kind of woman that will require a lot of patience and suave. The Rourke character (Wheeler) doesn't need to say all the right things: what he says to the ambitious international lawyer is genuine and heartfelt. On the exterior he is a motorcycle-riding bad-boy. But under the surface belies a man with a vulnerable side and knows that the woman can do some emotional damage to him if he isn't careful. The Jacqueline Bisset performance as a negotiator is a treat. A pivotal scene in the movie is when she and Emily talk about Wheeler for the first time. The negotiator is busy putting on a tie and looking in the mirror (I actually appreciate this. Some movies show characters putting ties on without mirrors and it's not realistic to me because without looking at a mirror, the tie probably will end up looking sloppy and crooked.), telling her of her experience with Wheeler and how he charmed her without even touching her. She wants to know if Wheeler swept her the way he did her, Emily is a beautiful woman after all, so she wants to find out if her attraction in the past was typical or just a spell Wheeler put on her. I guess she wanted to find out if Emily IS as weak as she WAS. The scene is pretty powerful for softcore cheese, I was pleasantly surprised. The movie contains some unforgettable scenes and some not-so-unforgettable scenes. Pretty much every scene not involving Wheeler is forgettable (except for that scene I mentioned between the negotiator and Emily) but Rourke's stellar performance is enough to carry the movie. Rourke displays the proper way of seduction: patience, sincerity, and mystery (not to mention intelligence, Wheeler is no dummy). It's a very subtle yet riveting performance. It's hard to imagine anybody except Rourke as Wheeler. Rent but don't buy. B
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 Carr?(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 desires?...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 Carr? 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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