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Boxing Helena

Beyond love, beyond obsession, there hides something beyond reason.

1993 · 1h 47m · R Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by Jennifer Lynch

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Overview

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.

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17%
Tomatometer
Rotten

It's probably just as well that last-minute dropouts Kim Basinger or Madonna didn't take the title role, as the presence of a star lurking powerlessly on the little platform no doubt would have been distracting and more laughable than it [is] now.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

s. Lynch has both talent and a point. Her film is by no means the gory, exploitative quasi-pornography that it sounds like from afar.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten

What Lynch, who wrote the script at 19, sees as high drama is really high camp.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten

What Ms. Lynch has given us is a prettied-up snuff movie.

Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten

Fenn's slow-motion fountain-bathing scene looks like an over-the-top TV commercial, the cop-out finale is a film-school cliche, and the male characters are so one-dimensional and pathetic that the movie could inspire a Men's Action Coalition.

John Hartl, Film.com

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