Movies

April, 1986

Stylish and Sexy as a Chanel commercial, 9 1/2 Weeks (MGM/UA) was directed by Adrian Lyne, whose Flashdance displayed his flair for putting together a collage of ultrafashionable erotica. There's scant substance here, but who cares? An entire generation of well-heeled, ripe-and-ready Yuppies may find themselves responding to the designer-label look of Lyne's glossy homage to a novel by Elizabeth McNeill (one steamy excerpt appeared in Playboy in April 1978). It's all about a New York career woma...