Helena doesn’t want anything to do with Nick and is a very manipulative bitch. The plot of the movie is about a successful surgeon Nick who is obsessed with a woman he had a former affair with Helena. Let’s just say this is not the case of a Sophia Coppolla but I’m getting ahead of myself. This was Jennifer Lynch’s (daughter of David Lynch) first and really only attempt at film making.
One of the more notorious entries in this list.
This copy is a Korean issue but presents no problem with domestic DVD players (Korean subtitles can be turned off).Production Budget: $6.8 million (again, VERY unofficial) I did return and soldier through the last part where we discover Dr Nick really was too sissy to go through with the fiendish plot and it was all a dream. Helena's unconvincing reaction to losing her limbs, as well as appearing perfectly made-up and dressed adds to the disbelief the film instils in us and it got to a point two-thirds of the way through where it was so bad that I literally had to switch it off. Julian Sands is particularly bad as wimpy Dr Nick whose problems are rooted in watching his mom have sex as a child and continue into adulthood in his inept bedroom performance with wet lettuce girlfriend Dr Ann, but Sherilyn Fenn is also nauseating as Helena, a sullen woman it is hard to imagine anybody feeling any affection for, let alone being infatuated with (despite a few shots of Playboy styled soft eroticism as Dr Nick watches from the tree outside her house, which completely fails to convince any other viewer). What we have - with the exception of a girl with no arms and legs - is one of those bland TV movies you come across if you flip channels randomly on a weekday afternoon, a weak plot, an inept script, wooden acting and minimal evidence of characterisation. However it completely fails to deliver on even a hint of its promise. With its unusual plot about a mad doctor who cuts the limbs of a girl he is infatuated with and keeps her in a box it certainly held promise. Being a big follower of David Lynch I was keen to see if some of his magic rubbed off on his daughter, Jennifer, whose directorial debut Boxing Helena is.
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