Wild Side (1995 film)

Wild Side

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Directed by Donald Cammell
Produced by John Langley (a.o.)
Frank Mazzola (director's cut)
Written by China Kong
Donald Cammell
Starring Anne Heche
Joan Chen
Christopher Walken
Cinematography Sead Mutarevic
Editing by Frank Mazzola (director's cut)
Release date(s) 1995
Running time 96 min.
111 min. (Director's cut)
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English

Wild Side is a 1995 film co-written and directed by Donald Cammell starring Anne Heche, Joan Chen, Christopher Walken and Steven Bauer.

There are three different versions of the film. Cammell committed suicide shortly after seeing it drastically re-edited by its producers. A "director's cut" version by Cammell's wife and co-screenwriter China Kong, and his editor and sometime producer Frank Mazzola, was released in 2000 to critical acclaim. The film is perhaps best known for its graphic lesbian love scenes between stars Joan Chen and Anne Heche. The scenes proved controversial to the point that after Wild Side's initial airings on HBO, the network subsequently chose to air a version of the film with those portions deleted.

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