THE CUTTING EDGE
Over the history of film, Hollywood has often hovered precariously between good taste and bad taste. Many times, the results have been disastrous.
Calendar explores two films on this Cutting Edge, both produced by mainstream Hollywood agencies with Hollywood stars and both opening Friday.
This week, Pat H. Broeske reports on the struggles over “9 1/2 Weeks” and its sexually provocative story.
Next Sunday, Deborah Caulfield reports on “The Hitcher,” which is produced and distributed by HBO, Silver Screen Partners and Tri-Star Pictures and stars Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell. It’s a horrific tale of an maniac hitchhiker (Hauer) who slits peoples’ throats, hacks off a victim’s finger, French fries it, and rips a woman in two.
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