9½ Weeks
1986 American romantic drama film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, and starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. Basinger portrays a New York City art gallery employee who has a brief yet intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street broker, played by Rourke. The screenplay by Sarah Kernochan, Zalman King and Patricia Louisianna Knop is adapted from the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day, under the pseudonym "Elizabeth McNeill".
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Directed by | Adrian Lyne |
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Based on | Nine and a Half Weeks by Ingeborg Day |
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Cinematography | Peter Biziou |
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Music by | Jack Nitzsche |
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Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Co. (United States) PSO International (Internationally) |
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Running time | 117 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
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Budget | $17 million |
Box office | $100 million[2] |
The film was completed in 1984, but did not get released until February 1986. Considered too explicit by its American distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was heavily edited for release in the United States,[3] where it was a box office bomb, grossing $6.7 million on a $17 million budget.[4] It also received mixed reviews at the time of its release. However, its soundtrack sold well and the film itself became a huge success internationally in its unedited version, particularly in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, making $100 million worldwide.[2] It has also acquired a large fanbase on video and DVD and has developed a cult following.[5]