Wild Orchid (1989)
Directed by Zalman King
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
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Take one of those soft-focused Zalman King erotica flicks from the 1990s -- "Wild Orchid," for example, or his late-night Showtime series "The Red Shoe Diaries" -- water down the sex a little and subtract 100 years, and you've got the bulk of the formula for "Original Sin."
But here, he gives the kind of performance that reminds us why he was so well-regarded in the early stages of his career — back when he was making movies such as "Diner" (1982) and "The Pope of Greenwich Village" (1984), rather than his later turns in exploitative trash such as "Wild Orchid" (1989), "Spun" (2002) and "Domino" (2005).
Best remembered for his breakout in Diner and his slinky magnetism in the films that followed ( Nine ½ Weeks , Wild Orchid ), he made some noise in the early 1990s about the innate girliness of the acting profession and retired, for a time, to the boxing ring.