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starring: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Kurtwood Smith, Art Garfunkeldirected by: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792847700
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0792847709
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: December 05, 2000
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 32255
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 03, 1993
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The movie Boxing Helena is probably better known for the court case that sprang from it than for itself. Kim Basinger was famously sued for violating her oral agreement to play the lead role; the jury ruled against her to the tune of almost $9 million. Those who felt the ruling was unjust have no better evidence than the movie itself--who in their right mind would agree to play a woman whose obsessively jealous lover cuts off her arms and legs to control her? Boxing Helena wants to be a penetrating investigation into the dark side of erotic desire. It doesn't succeed. But it does achieve the dubious but delightful status of being an entertaining disaster. Glory in Sherilyn Fenn's amazingly sincere attempt to take the script seriously! Thrill to the completely gratuitous sex scene between Julian Sands and a woman who doesn't appear at any other moment in the movie! Gaze, jaw agape, at the ridiculous ending! The movie features a wonderfully overwrought performance from Bill Paxton (A Simple Plan, Twister) and what is to date the last film appearance of Art Garfunkel. While Boxing Helena doesn't have the relentless ridiculousness of something like The Lonely Lady (with Pia Zadora!) or Showgirls, it has a giddiness that builds as it gets more and more improbable. Bad-movie fans will find it a delectable treat. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Far any Sherilyn Fenn fan, A MUST.
A hate it or love it film, I would have to agree. But if your fan of Fenn, then this your movie. It's a rather slow and meticulous movie, but with the excellent photography and flat-out-I-saw-it-coming end, it's not all that bad as reviewers say it is.
You get great shots of Sherilyn in the buff, as well as Nicole Scorsese (No relation to Martin), this is just an erotic suspence flick, that, if you give enough time, you may enjoy.
Rating:  - Obsession in a Box
"Boxing Helena" is the pretentious art house disaster that simultaneously began and ended Jennifer Lynch's directorial career. Wanting to follow in her father David's footsteps, Jennifer focused on the freakish. She cast Julian Sands as an uptight Englishman with mother issues,and gave Art Garfunkel his last screen appearance so far.
Julian Sands is a doctor who grew up in the shadow of the Venus de Milo and his rejecting,promiscuous mother. Of course,he's an excitable boy. He falls ... Read More
Rating: - A Farewell To Arms....And Legs
This is a hard movie to defend, so most of the time I don't even bother to try. I really won't even try now, but just say that I really like this movie and I'm not sure why. It's reputation as a lousy film is almost legendary. Of course when you consider Michael Bay's filmography, you might want to re-evaluate this movie, or maybe not.
Julian Sands(an actor I love) is a rich surgeon obsessed with a woman he had a one nighter with. The woman, Helena, is played by Sherilyn Fenn, so it's easy ... Read More
Rating:  - Just Odd
Julian Sands notwithstanding, this is a very odd movie - lives up to it's director's name (Jennifer Lynch is David's daughter), but something's missing - very near soft-core porn.
Rating:  - THE MOST UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS 104 MINUTES OF 1993!
Everyone loves a good smoking ruin of a movie. Witness the popularity of fascinating train wrecks like Crimes of Passion, Hudson Hawk and Last Action Hero, each infinitely more entertaining in their own way than a truckload of Oscar-winners. There are few pleasures to rival the completely sedentary evening spent with your most sardonic friends cackling like freshmen on hallucinogens at movies like Boxing Helena.
Boxing Helena turned out to be one of the most hilarious 104 minutes of 1993. ... Read More
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