WILD ORCHID was surrounded by controversy that the sex scenes between Carre Otis and Mickey Rourke were not faked. Most people think its some smut movie with no plot. No one ever looks between the lines. Yes it has plenty of sex, and a simple plot, but the theme of it is important. True love.
Model and subsequent Mickey Rourke squeeze Carré Otis plays a brilliant young attorney–well, we’re told she’s brilliant, although watching her in action, straining to wrap those puffy lips around her legalese dialogue, definitely conjures up other adjectives. She’s dispatched to Rio de Janeiro under the guise of real-estate law and ends up seduced both by the exotic culture and by a brooding, highly misunderstood and frighteningly orange-skinned multimillionaire (Rourke). Kinky (for the time) sex games and deliriously mannered dialogue make this a rather pretentious exercise, unleavened by any truly erotic sensuality.
