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Production Year: 1997 - Drama - Director: Mike Figgis - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over more

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ONE NIGHT STAND is director Mike Figgis's morality play about casual sex in the age of AIDS. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) travels to see his old friend Charlie (Robert Downey, Jr.)...
more...in New York and winds up in an act of infidelity with a beautiful stranger named Karen (Nastassja Kinski). Max's one night stand is not a source of fear or guilt, but rather a crisis that leads him to question the life he's built and is so easily convinced to betray. That life, as a family man and director of shallow commercials in Los Angeles, is best embodied in his demanding wife Mimi, a Hollywood socialite who only connects with her husband on apparently superficial levels. Mimi is played by Ming-Na Wen, who steals the show in her supporting role (except when Robert Downey, Jr. is on the screen, stealing the show even more in his supporting role as Max's friend, who is dying of AIDS). Making subtle use of his multiracial cast, writer-director Mike Figgis has crafted a dramatic tale about love, sex, and betrayal.





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A review by michellej on One Night Stand DVD
September 11th, 2000


Author's product rating:   One Night Stand DVD - rated by michellej

Did you enjoy it? Indifferent to it 
Story Satisfactory 
Characters / Performances Satisfactory 
Special Effects Standard 
How does it compare to similar films? Satisfactory 

Advantages: Okay movie
Disadvantages: -

Recommend to potential buyers: no 

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This is the story about a man that appears to have everything, a lovely wife, children, a nice home, good job and the proverbial white picket fence. He receives news that an old friend of his (Robert Downey JR.) has become ill with Aids, so he goes to Los Angeles to visit his friend that he hasn’t seen for five years.

Once he gets there, he meets a lady in a bar (Natassja Kinski), who get talking and wind up getting a hotel room… need I say more?
No more said about the incident.

At his sick friends bedside, he meets up with an old friend that he hasn’t seen for a long time, then his wife walks in… yes… it’s his one night stand. Now that his adultery is staring him straight in the face, his guilty conscience makes him see his life from a different perspective.

There’s some twists and slides, it’s quite amusing at the end of the movie when it shows that Wesley gets together with his one night stand, and his ex-wife gets together with Natassja’s ex-husband.
Nothing more than couple swapping.
 

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