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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The creators seem to have wanted us to be impressed with how John sets up [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn the famous striptease scene]] using his CD player, and indeed that probably was the first time someone used one in an American film. Today it looks quaint.



* StarMakingRole: While Creator/KimBasinger [[Film/NeverSayNeverAgain wasn't]] [[Film/TheNatural entirely]] a [[Theatre/FoolForLove newbie]] to the film business, ''9½ Weeks'' was nonetheless, her first full-fledged motion picture starring role. Basinger herself, [[WordOfGod said]] that she didn't feel like a [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct "real actress"]] until she made this film.

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* StarMakingRole: While Creator/KimBasinger [[Film/NeverSayNeverAgain wasn't]] [[Film/TheNatural entirely]] a [[Theatre/FoolForLove newbie]] to the film business, ''9½ Weeks'' was nonetheless, her first full-fledged motion picture starring role. role in a motion picture. Basinger herself, [[WordOfGod said]] that she didn't feel like a [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct "real actress"]] until she made this film.film.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The creators seem to have wanted us to be impressed with how John sets up [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn the famous striptease scene]] using his CD player, and indeed that probably was the first time someone used one in an American film. Today it looks quaint.
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* StarMakingRole: While Creator/KimBasinger [[Film/NeverSayNeverAgain wasn't]] [[Film/TheNatural entirely]] a [[Theatre/FoolForLove newbie]] to the film business, ''9½ Weeks'' was nonetheless, her first full-fledged motion picture starring role. Basinger herself, [[WordOfGod said]] that she didn't feel like a [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct "real actress"]] until she made this film.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Creator/AdrianLyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Screenwriter Elizabeth [=McNeill=] suggested Creator/SylviaKristel. Creator/JacquelineBisset, Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Creator/AdrianLyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Screenwriter Elizabeth [=McNeill=] suggested Creator/SylviaKristel. Creator/JacquelineBisset, Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/TatumONeal, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Creator/AdrianLyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Screenwriter Elizabeth [=McNeill=] suggested Creator/SylviaKristel. Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Creator/AdrianLyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Screenwriter Elizabeth [=McNeill=] suggested Creator/SylviaKristel. Creator/JacquelineBisset, Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne Creator/AdrianLyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Screenwriter Elizabeth [=McNeill=] suggested Creator/SylviaKristel. Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The creatros seem to have wanted us to be impressed with how John sets up [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn the famous striptease scene]] using his CD player, and indeed that probably was the first time someone used one in an American film. Today it looks quaint.

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The creatros creators seem to have wanted us to be impressed with how John sets up [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn the famous striptease scene]] using his CD player, and indeed that probably was the first time someone used one in an American film. Today it looks quaint.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/IsabellaRossellini, Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also considered.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The creatros seem to have wanted us to be impressed with how John sets up [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn the famous striptease scene]] using his CD player, and indeed that probably was the first time someone used one in an American film. Today it looks quaint.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/KathleenTurner also auditioned.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/KathleenTurner and Creator/SigourneyWeaver were also auditioned.considered.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although this film bombed in the United States, it was a huge hit in Italy and was the third-highest grossing movie released that year.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although this film bombed in the United States, it was a huge hit in Italy and was the third-highest grossing movie released that year.

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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film sat on the shelf for a year after it was finished because the studio couldn't figure out how to market it, nor what they could cut to avoid an R rating, and because the original distributor (Creator/TriStarPictures) dropped the film due to the content (at the time, their parent company was owned by Coca-Cola and they had a ban on releasing X-rated movies). MGM picked up and opened it in a limited run more than six months after the original release date.

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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $17 million. Box office, $6,735,922 (original theatrical release tally only). The film's initial failure in cinemas got offset by several critics championing the film and it being vindicated by video. It also managed to play at a Paris cinema for 5 years straight.
* CreatorBreakdown: Creator/KimBasinger described the shoot as emotionally draining and admitted that it contributed to marital problems with then-husband Ron Snyder which were eventually patched up.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/MickeyRourke lost thirty pounds (at the behest of the filmmakers) before filming began.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Adrian Lyne used emotionally manipulative tactics on Creator/KimBasinger during the shooting to elicit the performance he wanted from her, which she later criticized harshly. For example, Lyne did not allow her and Creator/MickeyRourke to talk to each other off-set. The two were kept isolated from each other and Lyne would tell Basinger rumors about how Rourke intended to make her like or dislike him so that she would carry that attitude into the scene. Lyne would also offer Rourke performance notes, but Basinger none, in order to unnerve her. In a very unusual and expensive move along these lines, Lyne shot the film sequentially, so that Basinger's actual emotional breakdown over time would be effectively translated to the screen.
* MissingEpisode: Creator/KimBasinger owns 14 hours of deleted scenes that Creator/{{MGM}} thought were very psychologically damaging to people. The footage has never been made available for public viewing, even in the Director's Cut DVD edition.
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film sat on the shelf for a year after it was finished because the studio couldn't figure out how to market it, nor what they could cut to avoid an R rating, and because the original distributor (Creator/TriStarPictures) dropped the film due to the content (at the time, their parent company was owned by Coca-Cola and they had a ban on releasing X-rated movies). MGM picked up and opened it in a limited run more than six months after the original release date.date.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DemiMoore auditioned for Elizabeth, but Adrian Lyne didn't find her worldly enough at 21 to play a divorced art gallery operator. Creator/KathleenTurner also auditioned.
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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film sat on the shelf for a year after it was finished because the studio couldn't figure out how to market it, nor what they could cut to avoid an R rating, and because the original distributor (Creator/TriStarPictures) dropped the film due to the content (at the time, their parent company was owned by Coca-Cola and they had a ban on releasing X-rated movies). MGM picked up and opened it in a limited run more than six months after the original release date.

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