Boxing Helena
Short description
Boxing Helena centres on Nick Cavanaugh, a respected surgeon who becomes fixated on Helena, a woman who once turned him down. When a road accident leaves her badly injured, he takes her into his home and treats her there, keeping her in his care against her wishes as he tries to make her want him. Her resistance continues, and he goes to further extremes to hold on to her. The film was written and directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch, marking her feature debut ahead of Surveillance and Chained. Julian Sands plays Nick, with Sherilyn Fenn as Helena; Bill Paxton, Art Garfunkel, Betsy Clark and Kurtwood Smith appear in supporting roles, among a credited cast of 21 and crew of 56.
Made by Mainline Pictures on a budget of about 4 million dollars, the film took roughly 2 million dollars worldwide, a return well below its cost. On TMDB it holds a rating of 5 out of 10 from 262 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The lead role could have been played by Madonna.
- Jennifer wrote the screenplay for this movie when she was 19 years old.
- The film's director, Jennifer Lynch, is the daughter of another cult director, David Lynch. Jennifer's birth inspired David to create the film 'Eraserhead'.
- Kim Basinger initially agreed to play Elena, but then changed her mind. She was sued for $8 million as a result. "They might as well have cut off my leg!" Kim snapped later in one of her interviews.
- The full version of the film has a runtime of 108 minutes.
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