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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1) Surround Sound, French, Spanish, Subtitled, Director's Commentary, Original
An erotically charged love story that explores the passion and betrayal of a one night stand.
Editor's Note
ONE NIGHT STAND is director Mike Figgis's morality play about casual sex in the age of AIDS. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) travels to see his old friend Charlie (Robert Downey, Jr.) in New York and winds up in an act of infidelity with a beautiful stranger named Karen (Nastassja Kinski). Max's one night stand is not a source of fear or guilt, but rather a crisis that leads him to question the life he's built and is so easily convinced to betray. That life, as a family man and director of shallow commercials in Los Angeles, is best embodied in his demanding wife Mimi, a Hollywood socialite who only connects with her husband on apparently superficial levels. Mimi is played by Ming-Na Wen, who steals the show in her supporting role (except when Robert Downey, Jr. is on the screen, stealing the show even more in his supporting role as Max's friend, who is dying of AIDS). Making subtle use of his multiracial cast, writer-director Mike Figgis has crafted a dramatic tale about love, sex, and betrayal.
Plot Summary
A chance sexual encounter between a married Los Angeles-based TV director and a mysterious New Yorker resonates in all the lives involved when, one year later, the director discovers that his brother's fetching wife is the same woman with whom he cheated. ONE NIGHT STAND is a dramatically spare, moody ensemble piece rich with the emotional tension wrought by the demands of fidelity in the age of HIV.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Additional Release Material:
| Featurette: Composer Mike Figgis' Isolated Music Score | | Audio Commentary: Mike Figgis - Director | | Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Features:
| Interactive Menus | | Text/Photo Galleries:
| Filmographies | | Biographies: Cast Biographies |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 3/31/1998 |
| Running Time: 103 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 4655 | | UPC: 00794043465529 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...Figgis is a master cinematic storyteller. Here he creates drama with his camera in the breathtaking opening scenes..." p.50USA Today
"...The acting hits all the right notes..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 11/14/1997 p.6D Chicago Sun-Times
"...Well acted and written....[Kinski] is warm and fetching..." 11/14/1997 p.35 |
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