Wild Side




Erotic Thriller

(USA, 1995)

Average rating
Build-up:4.5 
Kissing:4.5 
Love scenes:4.0 
Movie overall:4.5 

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The Troubleshooter
Build-up  5 Kissing  4 Love scenes  4 Movie overall  5

Anne Heche stars as a bank worker by day, and a hooker by night. She gets involved with a creepy crime boss, but finds herself falling in love with his beautiful girlfriend. Together, they plan a daring doublecross.

Actresses:
Anne Heche & Joan Chen


Anne Heche and Joan Chen are chatting in a bathroom after having dinner and drinks. Heche offers to put an anklet on Chen's ankle, but mentions that depending on what ankle you place it on, the meaning of the anklet changes; One ankle meaning the wearer is taken. Heche is sitting on a chair, while Chen is sitting up on the bathroom counter, with one leg on each side of Heche.
Chen lets Heche decide what ankle to place it one. After a few seconds of stalling, Heche leaps up and kisses Chen on the lips. The kiss is slow, and after that Heche starts to panicky jabber about how she didn't mean to do it. She's about to leave the bathroom when she stops and asks Chen if she really wanted her to do that. Chen responds yes, and Heche goes back. The two then kiss more, with Heche moving very slowly and unbuttoning Chen's blouse, She then lowers herself and places her head between Chen's legs.

Actresses:
Anne Heche & Joan Chen


Immediately following scene 1, this cuts to Heche's bedroom where she and Chen are making love. The room is bright, allowing you see just about everything. Nudity is a bit fleeting (espically from Chen), but there's plenty of kissing and grappling, with them taking turns on top. Heche looks espically nice with her mouth open in pleasure while slamming her free hand down on the mattress.

Actresses:
Anne Heche & Joan Chen


While discussing their plan, Heche and Chen briefly kiss and touch each other in a dressing room.

A lesbian scene classic, this film has even more impact when you consider that is was filmed about three years before Heche temporarily converted to lesbanism in real life. Scene 2 is the big one, and it's a nice change from choppy love scenes that are often too dark to see anything. It's pretty long as well, at about 3 minutes, but beware that the rated version deletes this scene. Scene 1's build up though is superb as well.
Reviewer
Senor Chicop
Build-up  5 Kissing  5 Love scenes  4 Movie overall  5

I agree almost completely with "Troubleshooter's review and would like to add a couple of comments.
1. The movie itself is complete trash and is surely the screen nadir of "crime boss", Christopher Walken.
2. Prior to (Troubleshooter's) Scene 1 there is a delightful scene in Heche's (bank) office where she first meets Chen. Heche displays such giddy excitement in Chen's presence that even though nothing "happens" here, the scene is very erotic. Watch for the overhead camera shot of Heche's sexy high heels "dancing" around Heche's.
Reviewer
B Cool
Build-up  5 Kissing  4 Love scenes  3 Movie overall  5

All I have to say about this movie is that it has one of the most romantic love making scenes that I've seen in movies at all. You can almost see the love between Heche and Chan.
Reviewer
robobuddah
Build-up  5 Kissing  5 Love scenes  5 Movie overall  3

What the other reviewer's fail to note ,and what makes the bedroom scene in the un-rated version of this film so amazingly sensual, is that you can actually see Joan Chen masturbating Anne Heche. It leaves the viewer wondering whether Heche's on-screen orgasm was simulated or the real deal. I cannot recall ever seeing two big named actresses in such an explicet love scene. Trust me this is the Babe Ruth of mainstream lesbian sex scenes.