Red Shoe Diaries (1992)
Directed by Zalman King
A man grieving the loss of his fiancée discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew. In an effort to understand, he reaches out in an unusual way by placing an ad asking for women’s diaries and hearing their stories.
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Yes, there’s plenty of nudity as Steele and Grey romp around the bedroom and explore sexual taboos that may have been boundary-pushing when David Duchovny was still thumbing through “Red Shoe Diaries.”
“Because what better way to spend an awkward afternoon with your friend than watching a badly acted, poor quality plot/storyline, Red Shoe Diaries knockoff?
"Critical" Analysis: Fifty Shades of Grey is an episode of Red Shoe Diaries with a major studio budget.
But it’s also too flawed to recommend — much of the dialogue is irredeemably goofy, the sex scenes are straight out of Red Shoe Diaries, Dornan is a cipher, and the slicked-up portrait of the lives of the rich is straight out of an early-‘90s Michael Douglas movie (not one, but two sequences amount to flying porn).
If the picture's trashier elements appeal to you, pass on "Unfaithful" and rent "Red Shoe Diaries" (the pilot for a 1992 Showtime series with David Duchovny and Brigitte Bako) which connects with its characters on a visceral level and is dead sexy to boot.
And while book and movie are based on his 33 years as a CIA agent, they might also have been based on his repeated viewings of Red Shoe Diaries .
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And this is pretty much where Knock Knock goes from a tongue-in-cheek episode of Red Shoe Diaries to a patently ridiculous series of psychological mind games.
Their shared passion is unconvincing; their sex scenes, ludicrously tame (one bathtub encounter veers uncomfortably close to Red Shoe Diaries-style softcore), lack any spark or sizzle.
Red Shoe Diaries with metaphysical pretensions.