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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013023050990
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Pioneer Video
Manufacturer: Pioneer Video
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Pioneer Video
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Sales Rank: 77999
Studio: Pioneer Video
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A daring double-life leads a beautiful young woman down a silken path of sex, scandal and greed in this steamy, provocative thriller. Bank exec by day - high priced call girl by night, Alex gets in deeper than she ever imagined when she meets charismatic millionaire Bruno Buckingham and his stunning, enigmatic wife. Now, in a slow, exquisite seduction, Alex will be pulled into Buckingham's perverse world of fast-cash and kinky thrills - and into an ever telescoping money-laundering scheme that will bring her face to face with pure corruption - and the very depths of desire. Anne Heche, Christopher Walken, Joan Chen
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Before Anne Heche came to prominence as the lover (and then ex-lover) of Ellen DeGeneres, she carved out a career as a sharp, intelligent actress, someone who could save a movie by appearing on the fringes, as in The Juror, for instance. Mixed in with supporting roles were a few indie leads--Wild Side is one of the latter, despite Heche's third billing. And a very strange item it is. Heche plays a banking go-getter who moonlights as a high-class call girl, with the movie hinting that the two professions may not be all that dissimilar. A liaison with a crooked financier (Christopher Walken in extremis) and later with his wife (Joan Chen) puts our heroine in a very confusing situation, especially when she gets in the way of a chauffeur/undercover cop/predator, played by Steven Bauer in high Eric Roberts mode. If the story is not always coherent, the actors nevertheless shoot off sparks, and the movie pulses with a weird energy all its own.
Wild Side was the last picture directed by Donald Cammell, whose 1970 film Performance (co-directed by Nicolas Roeg) is one of the defining films of its era. This cut of Wild Side is credited to the pseudonymous "Franklin Brauner" because Cammell was unhappy with the radical re-edit performed without his consent. A director's cut had been prepared, but Cammell did not live to see it. He committed suicide in 1996, leaving behind a very small output of films in his foreshortened career. Wild Side, even in its cut form, carries his signature traits of authentic disorientation and intense, twisted sex. And while it's a guaranteed perk for prurient viewers, the torrid coupling of Heche and Chen is just one equation in the film's convoluted sexual arithmetic. --Robert Horton
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Who cares about the boring lesbo stuff...the skinny, rat-faced Heche is nothing to look at, the other one is, but so what? The reason to watch this flick, of course, is Walken...who parades around in Hawaiian shirts, silk dressing gowns with black socks, Coke bottle glasses, a fright mask wig, and Cuban cigar - sometimes all at once. The plot is presposterous, the best scene - and truly a great laugh - is in the hotel room: gun-wielding, condomed Walken in aforementioned get-up, bending undercover ... Read More
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An enigmatic, unjustly forgotten masterpiece.
Donald Cammell's beautiful and poetic WILD SIDE concludes the path that he began with Nicolas Roeg in 1969. I am referring, of course, to their directorial debut, the magisterial PERFORMANCE. As in PERFORMANCE, the principal characters mirror one another at crucial points---the rogue undercover cop (Steve Bauer), the vampirelike money launderer (Christopher Walken), his bewitching wife (Joan Chen), the banker/prostitute (Anne Heche) all perform ... Read More
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This strange mix of money, lesbian sex, and a plot that (at times) was a little hard to follow, did feature a fairly decent looking Anne Heche (Ellen Degeneres' former girlfriend, and I could see why) and Joan Chen, who have a few fairly steamy scenes together (too bad Ms. Chen didn't show more). The always strange Christopher Walken and Steven Bauer flesh out (pardon the usage) story, such as it is. I give it four stars for Heche, who can't really act, but did look good; I might have given it five, if ... Read More
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The only edition available on DVD is apparently the R-rated one which does not contain the hot scene with Heche and Chen.
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The provocative Anne Heche made a reputation in Hollywood due to her affairs with high profile comedians on her climb to the top. Few know that Heche was briefly Steve Martin's girlfiend before she was Ellen's, and despite her evident ability and attractiveness, a certain pall fell over her persona, as a real life heartbreaker (even before Ellen). She has hence been cast generally as a heavy, if not fem-lesbian, and even a twisted type.
All of which makes her heady performance in Wild Side the more ... Read More
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