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Wild Orchid
from MGM (Video & DVD)
starring Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset, Carré Otis, Assumpta Serna, Bruce Greenwood
directed by Zalman King

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Lose yourself to find yourself
  I'm actually a fan of WO's storyline that many swear doesn't exist, but this is probably because the sex and nude scenes pretty much efface it. Carre Otis plays an introverted and bookish yet latently sultry young lawyer named Emily, who lands a job with a firm that whisks her off to Rio de Janiero posthaste to finalize the negotiations of the purchase and renovation of a dilapidated motel. She seems to have led a very cloistered life, which makes her encounters in Rio's sultry atmosphere with the enigmatic... more info

• Mickey Rourke has The Juice in Wild Orchid.
  The French consider Mickey Rourke America's greatest actor. In the 80s, they loved him for his "cool, his on-screen cruelty, his seediness, his sexual depravity" (New York Times Magazine, 11/30/08), and for his "rumpled, slightly dirty, sordid. . . rebel persona (Mickey Rourke Biography - Yahoo! Movies). Just don't ask Rourke if he considers the French "more enlightened" than American filmgoers.
  After recently experiencing Rourke's newest film, The Wrestler at the Denver Film Festival, I revisited The... more info

• Still a sleaze bag
  This is Mickey Rourke's typical sleaze bag role. The film isn't even accomplished enough to be considered soft porn. Zalman King should have abandoned his efforts in mainstream filmmaking and gone straight into the adult industry. He probably would have had more fun and would have saved us from such complete crap.

• Plucking the Flower
  "Wild Orchid" is one of Zalman King's pretentious "erotic" thrillers of the '90s. It starred then-hottie Mickey Rourke,as well as his then-girlfriend Carre Otis. Rourke stars as an aloof gazillionaire named Wheeler who longs for the human touch. Carre Otis is Emily,a naive,virginal Midwesterner who knows six languages (but can't act) Jacqueline Bisset is Emily's scheming mother Claudia. It's set in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro. Though the movie opens with multiple shots of the Christ of the Andes,... more info

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