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- 1990
- R
- Triumph Releasing Corporation
- 1 h 45 m
- 1990
- R
- Triumph Releasing Corporation
- 1 h 45 m
Summary A female lawyer (Carrie Otis) becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire (Mickey Rourke) during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Directed By: Zalman King
Written By: Patricia Louisianna Knop, Zalman King
- 1990
- R
- Triumph Releasing Corporation
- 1 h 45 m
- 1990
- R
- Triumph Releasing Corporation
- 1 h 45 m
Wild Orchid
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Summary A female lawyer (Carrie Otis) becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire (Mickey Rourke) during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Directed By: Zalman King
Written By: Patricia Louisianna Knop, Zalman King
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
22% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
78% Negative
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
19
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
22% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
78% Negative
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
The silliness still outweighs the steaminess. [1 May 1990, p.2]
What doesn’t work is the hold Rourke is supposed to have over Otis. Looking pudgy and puffy-faced, with a little gold earring, he is anything but an appetizing sex object...As Emily, Otis really is hypnotically attractive, but she plays the still-waters-run-deep country beauty with expressionless immobility. Bisset, always a class act, here bubbles over with caricatured joie de vivre.
There's something about Orchid that's appealing, at least for the so-bad-it's-good aficionados. It inspires a guilty combination of howling amusement and rubbernecky fascination, aided by the overpowering, Brazil-meets-lounge music, the sultry images supplied by cinematographer Gale Tattersall and the life's-a-decadent-dinner-party sets of art director Carlos Conti.
None of this is erotic, but it is pretty silly. Silly enough to make this the low point of the movie year so far. [30 Apr 1990, p.1D]
Wild Orchid is an erotic film, plain and simple. It cannot be read any other way. There is no other purpose for its existence. Its story is absurd, and even its locale was chosen primarily for its travelogue value...What is relevant is that I did not find the movie erotic.
In the ludicrous soft-core fantasia Wild Orchid, Mickey Rourke is so tan he looks as though he’d spent a week with his head in a microwave.
Limp exercise in erotica...Rourke appears comatose, and Otis, though lovely in or out of her skimpy wardrobe, wears the pained expression of a woman who has accidentally stepped into something squishy and rank.
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