9½ Weeks

Based On the book by Ingeborg Day

9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. The film follows New York City art gallery employee Elizabeth McGraw (Basinger) who has a brief yet intense affair with mysterious Wall Street broker John Gray (Rourke). The screenplay by Patricia Knop, Zalman King and Sarah Kernochan is adapted from the 1978 memoir Nine and a Half Weeks by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day, under the pseudonym "Elizabeth McNeill". Principal photography was completed in August 1984, but the film was not released until February 1986.

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Release date:

February 14, 1986

Director:

Adrian Lyne

Cast:

Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Margaret Whitton, Christine Baranski, Karen Young

Genre:

Romance, Drama, Erotic

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1986 in adaptations