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Boxing Helena is a 1993 American Avant-garde thriller film directed by Jennifer Lynch and starring Sherilyn Fenn, Julian Sands, and Bill Paxton. Before its release, the film's production was hampered by legal battles with Madonna and Kim Basinger, who both backed out of playing Helena.
Doctor Nicholas "Nick" Cavanaugh is a successful surgeon, who lives with his colleague Anne Garret. She intends to get married with him, but Nick is obsessed by the tramp Helena, with whom he had some kind of shallow relationship in the past.
Boxing Helena: Directed by Jennifer Lynch. With Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Kurtwood Smith. A surgeon becomes obsessed with the seductive woman he once was in an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.
A disturbing concept marred by graceless execution, Boxing Helena is a psychosexual drama that proves more tedious than provocative. A rich surgeon (Julian Sands) operates on the object of his ...
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Sep 3, 1993 · Presented instead as a macabre modern fairy tale, and staged in unexpectedly discreet style (under the circumstances), her "Boxing Helena" is at least as hypnotically peculiar as it is perverse...
Sep 3, 1993 · Story. A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
