by Yazmin Ghonaim

ONE NIGHT STAND Mike Figgis (1997) In his recent film, One Night Stand, Writer/Director Mike Figgis exposes the life of a married man, Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes),who becomes obsessed with his one-night love affair with a married Karen (Nasstaja Kinski) whom he accidentally met during a trip to New York. In a style similar to that of his earlier film, "Leaving Las Vegas", Figgis develops a love story between two characters by placing the one who is from "out of town" in a city inhabited by the woman whom he will inevitably fall in love with. Max is a successful commercial director living with Mimi (Ming-Na Wen), his wife, and their two children in Los Angeles, whose life is haunted by the ghost of a guilty conscience. After a year of struggling against the realization that he left his heart in New York City, Max visits his best friend, Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.), who is hospitalized and dying of AIDS. Guided by the wisdom of the dying friend, Max takes Charlie's advice and decides to put his life in order. In a surprising denouement, Charlie's conservative brother, Vernon (Kyle MacLachlan) helps Max obtain the happiness no one knew he lacked.		DVD Music Books Search by keywords:
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