Wild Orchid

My wife and I enjoyed this film. It's a good show to watch to fan the flames of passion. The movie is about a farm girl from the mid west. She graduates law school and gets picked up by a law firm in New York and is immediately send to Rio De Janerio on assignment with her new boss. While in Rio, surrounded by a sexually charged culture, she begins to discover her own sexuality. There are a number of steamy hot love/sex scenes. For the most part it's well acted, well written, well directed. Carré Otis isn't particularly believable as a young attorney. But what she lacks in that department, she makes up for in the beautiful and sexy girl from the mid west department!

One of my favorite Mickey Rourke films. It's highly stylized in both visual and musical & sexual content, but I like the director's style. Shows Mickey at his most handsome & jaded and Carre Otis at her most beautiful. The two were having an affair during the film, which ends with a frank love scene which got a lot of attention at the time. This was Otis' first film, and she doesn't really have to act here -- just look drop dead beautiful. There are some "FOB"'s in the film -- I call them flashes of brilliance from Mickey Rourke's acting style, things I can't imagine any other actor doing. Jacqueline Bissett also puts in a good acting performance and the production features some nice on-location scenes in Rio. Plenty of sexual situations, and the heated relationship between Rourke & Otis make it worthwhile seeing. Not for the kiddies though.

Really good DVD - great stars, great settings, good script, good acting, great sex = great DVD Every so often you run across a really great DVD, WILD ORCHID is an example of a film that keeps your attention from the start to the finish of the film. The ingredients are all there and they were mixed perfectly. I know you will enjoy this DVD

For whatever reason, there's something I like enough about this movie. I've owned a copy since it was on LaserDisc, but my player is deceased and I gave my LaserDisc away. Since then I've hoped that a Blu ray was in the works, but it wasn't until about May 2015 that I found that my hope had become a reality.I won't bother with a review of the movie itself, others here have reviewed it, and I expect it's the kind of movie you either like or don't like. I've read all of the reviews of the Blu ray version of Wild Orchid here, and there's one thing no one has made any mention of, at least that I've seen, and that's the horrible lip-sync in the first approx. 50 minutes of the movie. It's like watching an english-dubbed version of a Japanese Godzilla movie, and I'm shocked that no one else has pointed this out. I began to think that maybe I got a defective run of the Blu rays, so I went online and searched for reviews from other sources and immediately found this issue mentioned. From bluray dot highdefdigest dot com:"There's one audio track, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, and there's a potential deal breaker: The audio is around two frames early/out of sync until 50:37. Your tolerance for this discrepancy may be better or worse than mine. At 50:37, a complete one-frame dropout occurs at a cut, and the sync restores itself to normal until the end of the film. Aside from these issues, the audio is below average at best. The dialogue is mixed way too low, and the SFX as well as the music are too high in proportion."Also mentioned:"The video on this release is a 1:85 AVC encode. The presentation throughout is poor. The image is extremely noisy, look at any blue skyline and it's swimming in large patterns of pixels. One scene of beachwash was almost indecipherable, with textures breaking up. Film scratches, stains, spots, and other source-based anomalies exist throughout, mostly on exterior sequences, and are ugly to look at. Interior sequences fair better. The detail is good in most close-ups, and one particular scene showing a cigarette showed fine texture. Contrast throughout is average at best; most blacks look to be a dark gray."I have to agree with everything the reviewer Eric Bennett said. This is a bad, amateurish transfer. Little or no cleaning was done and it appears that no restoration was done to the film. Eric Bennett is wrong about the lip-sync, it's off further than 2 frames- other than that, his review is quite accurate, and I recommend you read it. The only thing you can say about the quality is that it's better than nothing.Whether you like Wild Orchid or not (and I do like it) this movie deserves a lot better than it got- it's story is told largely in pictures, in an exotic and beautiful part of the world (which I have seen first-hand) and the effort that was made to capture that on film has been largely negated by the lack of attention to the technical quality of the transfer. For me it was a must-have, but it makes me sad when I see what Olive Films has done to it.

Great movie! Carrie Otis and Mickey Rourke have great chemistry because they were into each other. They married and the rest....is crazy history! But the movie is sexy and the music is awesome! One of my fave's! Even my mom who is a conservative 72 yr old,....liked and understood the plot which is very interesting!! It transports you To another place!! Its different! Mickey and Carrie look young and beautiful!

So dated, characters not believable, neither was the plot, and I use that word lightly. Mickey Rourke's character so flat.All about sex with no substance. Tacky, tacky, tacky and boring

A good film, but you have to have an open mind to understand it. It borders on the edge of being extreme, if you can understand what I'm trying to say. (Almost XX rating)..

I'm old enough to remember when Mickey Rourke was the hot stuff of the day & when this movie originally came out!!! I must say that I was too young to really appreciate the storyline at the time & I'm glad I decided to revisit it. It is very erotic without being trashy. I guess it depends on how easily you are offended by the erotic, but I found it to be a well written & the acting was spot on!!! Mickey was dating his costar at the time; so the chemistry was PERFECT for the story!!!

A young lawyer, Emily, lands a job with an international law firm, which immediately offers her a job In Rio de Janeiro. She is introduced to Claudia ( one of the firm's top executives ) and together they arrive in Rio to finalize the purchase of a hotel, but Emily is left alone when Claudia flies off to do business with the hotel’s owner, leaving Emily to cover her date for that night.Emily meets Claudia’s date, a mysterious man called Wheeler, who then sets about trying to entice her into a journey of self discovery & sexuality.The film was never going to win any Awards for its performances ( a lot of stilted dialogue is indeed delivered with wooden precision ) and whilst you do spend a great deal of time trying to figure out what the actual appeal is with Wheeler ( slicked back hair, pursed lips and a penchant for the kind of lines that would have most women cringing) what it does have is a fantastic soundtrack ( a stunning combination of rock, pop & tribal drums with latin American rhythms and spine tingling vocals ) true simmering sexuality & it is genuinely erotic.It’s a true guilty pleasure and is nowhere near as awful as people make out.It’s designed to titillate and it certainly does that far better than any Fifty Shades of Grey film.It’s also worth noting that “ the volleyball player from the beach “ is truly stunning and the film is worth watching just for him.The film gets an extra star for him alone.

Dated and rather dull . I guess it’s soft porn but for me it just didn’t work and I got bored with itMickey Rourke is wooden to say the least4 start for service and one for the film

O.K.

A bizarre boring film. How it got past the sex censors I do not know. Jacqueline Bisset actually only played a fairly minor role.

Very good old film, serious and fun to a degree. We had a good laugh but considering it's an old showing film, not bad at all.