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Zandalee (1991)

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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :-
Gratuitous nudity livens up dull melodrama, 8 April 2000
Author: Paranoid Android-2 (marcvanderloo@talk21.com) from London, England

Nicholas Cage is mis-cast as an irrestistable sex-god/brooding artist who comes to stay with an old friend (Judge Reinhold) and proceeds to VERY unsubtley seduce his wife, Zandalee (Twin Peaks' Erika Anderson). Despite his lank, greasy (thinning) hair, scraggy goaty, boorish manner and an unfortunate fondness for spouting pretentious philosophy, rather than find him hilarious she is inexplicably drawn to him.

The only thing that keeps the interest from flagging throughout this film are the strong sex scenes and the gratuitous nudity involving the stunning Anderson, which begins, promisingly enough, before the opening credits have even finished and is sprinkled generously throughout the film. On the downside, you also have to see Judge Reinhold's butt - not such a pretty sight - but sometimes sacrifices have to be made.

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10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
Lots of heavy breathing and local color..., 8 June 2001

Author: gridoon

This is a great-looking film, filmed in rich colors and beautiful New Orleans locations. But dramatically it doesn't fare so well; it's mostly a monotonous series of heavy-breathing sequences, interrupted by dialogue passages that seem to exist only because a film can't be made ONLY with sex scenes. We also get lots of gratuitous nudity from the statuesque Erika Anderson, who's married to Judge Reinhold (fairly good, but not good enough to be taken absolutely seriously as a dramatic actor yet) and pursued by Nicolas Cage (in a smug performance he would probably like to forget today). Overall, not a horrible film, but not outstanding, either. (**)

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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Late Night Lock The Bedroom Door Flick, 20 July 2000
Author: Cory Wilson from Kansas City

Zandalee is the kind of movie that a teenage boy would watch late at night on HBO...only after locking his bedroom door. New Orleans is very pretty, and there's some decent sex scenes, but other than that there's nothing more here that hasn't been done better somewhere else. It is what it is.

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
"Not the best . . .but . . ., 11 January 2002
Author: drstrang-3 from Edison NJ

"Not the best . . .but . . . Reviewer: A viewer from edison, nj USA For those of us who cherish the steamy city of New Orleans, Zandalee captures the steaminess while transcending its shortcomings.

Rehinhold could have made more of an effort to exhibit a more tragic figure - and could have made an attempt at maintaining ANY accent. Cage is satan personified. More than a bit melodramatic in many scenes, good cameo appearances by Marissa Tomei, Joe Pantoliano (pricesless cross-dresser!) and Steve Buscemi (playing Steve Buscemi) add to the memorable scenes and memorable/quotable dialogue: ("I'm your reality check" "Its a heartifact" "A little decorum!".

Its worth the 3 bucks to rent of the $15 to buy it. Nice steamy, sexy movie. Not the greatest . . . but . . .

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
beautifully shot, poorly cut, 2 February 2006

Author: Boris Todorov (btodorov@ucla.edu) from Los Angeles, California

The movie is not as bad as the overall rating shows. I presume too many people saw it on account of Nicholas Cage and got disappointed. The problem is that the drama does not develop in one direction. It ended as a banal story about adultery culminating in a theatrical suicide and an unconvincing tragedy. Cage (Johnny), the outsider, turned up to be the guiltiest of all. Yet, until the middle the movie had developed around Anderson (Zandalee) and at some point it looked as if the victim of the drama would be exactly Cage who fell desperately in love with beautiful Anderson while she was using him to overcome her frustrations with husband Thierry. That seemed to be the purpose of the two supporting characters: Tatta and the gay shop-attendant who were pushing her into adultery, so as to save her marriage. At some point, either when shooting or when cutting, the concept changed and the triangle lost everything even remotely intriguing.

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
It's way too hot in New Orleans!, 22 October 1998

Author: anonymous from florida

There is a reason this went straight to video- the story is smarmy, Nick Cage plays Johnny in a sleazy way- sex in churches, and other scenes that border on tasteless(like the scene in the laundry room) taint this movie. Judge Reinhold as the cuckold is okay- but the movie itself with its themes of degradation and revenge are not well done. But it is a good film for trivia contests- because so few people saw it.

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
Not good but ..., 22 January 2001
Author: Leysser León Hilario (leysser@rocketmail.com) from Lima, Peru

I don't understand why this film accumulates so scarcely votes. Come on! Nick Cage did a good job; Erika Anderson is beautiful and stimulating (she didn't need another skill, or she did??). In my opinion, the story, the plot, could be a better fortune in the hands of an European director, like Chabrol or Goddard. But "Zandalee" it is not so bad or dull to don't be advised to the spectators. 6 points.

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Too many bad sex scenes !, 14 August 2008
Author: (thegreatestfan10@gmail.com)

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I didn't enjoy this, it was too ugly. (Erika Anderson) isn't that hot at all, even in a strangely way like the charismatic Madonna for instance. There is sexual boldness.. I give them that. However it's not that sexy. Let's see: (Erika Anderson) is naked for most of the time (not a great news!), (Nicholas Cage) is making very realistic rough sex scenes (OK, but it's too short), (Judge Reinhold) is showing his butt naked (Ugh !!), there is a sex scene at the kitchen (wasn't good enough), there is a wonderful scene where Cage was putting baby oil on Erika's naked ass, and promising her "we're going to *beeb* like animals" and he was about to do it with her up the ASS, but we didn't have the chance to watch anything afterwards (!!??), even the actual *beeb* in the ass' other scene, you'd watch it with all of their clothes on (what !!??), there is a scene where Erika Anderson was trying to masturbate (cool, yet shortly!), the only thing to be memorable is a sex party in a bar with some good orgy. Dears, it's like a porn, but as the worst of them all (had a plot and story bla bla bla !). The BOTTOM line : go watch Madonna's Like a Virgin instead, where at least the girly masturbation was hotter.

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