![]() ![]() Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) is a child attending a party given by his parents and largely ignored, indeed scowled upon. And as a thriller, it plods along like a tired old elephant. It lacks the profound vision to be absurdist or existential. ![]() The movie lacks the sophistication or cleverness to be a satire or even high camp. There’s little substance here and little focus. Much of the blame must be placed with director Jennifer Chambers Lynch, who also wrote the screenplay, and with those who decided to give her the money to make this movie - the producers, Carl Mazzocone and Philippe Caland (who’s responsible for the story), and executive producers James R. The real reason is: ″Boxing Helena″ is a bad film - with terrible acting, cliched dialogue, a silly script, pedestrian camera work and inferior direction. ![]() Its uncomfortable theme of a female living torso kept as the trophy of an obsessively demented male doctor already has feminists foaming at the mouth.īut that’s not the reason this movie should be dismissed. Undated (AP) _ ″Boxing Helena″ is going to be much-maligned, but probably for all the wrong reasons. ![]()
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