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    Boxing Helena (1993)

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    The first feature film directed by 25-year-old Jennifer Chambers (daughter of David Lynch) is a tale of obsessive passion that’s as risibly far-fetched as it is morbidly wacked-out.

    Sherilyn Fenn plays Helena (pictured below right), a free-spirited slut who becomes the unfortunate object of the sexual obsessions of surgeon Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands).

    Helena is first seen having soft-core sex with hotheaded Ray (Bill Paxton). She likes to undress at her bedroom window. And there, salivating in the tree outside is Nick.

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    His gooey schoolboy advances only invite derision and scorn, but what’s a little insult to a mad doctor who is impotent, too?

    So when Helena gets hit by a car outside his lavish Atlanta mansion, the doc locks her up and amputates his beloved’s limbs to keep her helpless and dependent.

    Poor Helena. She still hates him, but armless and legless, a girl’s gotta eat.

    Kim Basinger was originally in line for the lead role but backed out. Although she had not signed a contract, a Los Angeles court ordered Basinger to pay a massive $8.9 million in damages to Main Line Pictures for the “loss of her advantageous presence”.

    Dr Nick Cavanaugh
    Julian Sands
    Helena
    Sherilyn Fenn
    Ray O’Malley
    Bill Paxton
    Dr Alan Harrison
    Kurtwood Smith
    Dr Lawrence Augustine
    Art Garfunkel
    Anne Garrett
    Betsy Clark
    Fantasy Lover/Nurse
    Nicolette Scorsese
    Marion Cavanaugh
    Meg Register
    Russell
    Bryan Smith
    Patricia
    Marla Levine
    Nurse Diane
    Kim Lentz
    Sam the Clerk
    Lloyd T. Williams
    Pastor
    Carl Mazzocone Sr.
    Uncle Charlie
    Erik Shoaff

    Director
    Jennifer Chambers

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