Boxing Helena is a 1993 romantic drama film and the debut feature film by Jennifer Chambers Lynch, daughter of David Lynch. The film stars Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn as the eponymous Helena.
Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) is a lonely Atlanta surgeon obsessed with a girl named Helena (Sherilyn Fenn). After she is injured in a grievous hit-and-run motor vehicle accident in front of his home, he kidnaps and treats her in his house surreptitiously, amputating both of her legs. Later, he amputates her healthy arms as well.
Though Helena is the victim of Nick's kidnapping and mutilation, she dominates the dialogue with her constant emasculating ridicule of him for all of his shortcomings.
After some time living together she becomes lonely and returns his affection.
A legal battle ensued when first Madonna, then Kim Basinger backed out of the title role—eventually Basinger was the subject of an adverse jury verdict for over $8.1 million dollars. This caused Basinger to enter bankruptcy. The verdict was then set aside on appeal in 1994, but the actress later settled for $3.8 million.
Boxing Helena currently holds a 19% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 31 reviews.
The film was
(This is information generated from a Wikipedia article, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.)