One Night Stand (1997) on Netflix
Max Carlyle lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mimi, and their children. In New York to see his friend Charlie, who has AIDS, he meets Karen and sleeps with her.
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Plot summary
Max Carlyle makes his living directing commercials in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Mimi, and their two children. He travels to New York to see Charlie, a close friend who is dying of AIDS. After Max misses his flight, circumstances keep bringing him and Karen, a woman he has not met before, together through the evening, and the two of them sleep together. He flies home the next day. Back in Los Angeles, Max seems distant and unhappy, and Mimi cannot tell why; he will not say. He does not return to New York for a year.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One Night Stand (1997)
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- Robert Downey Jr. came to an introductory meeting "barefoot, high and brandishing a handgun," and was arrested for cocaine and heroin possession during shooting. Days later he still showed up on set and gave what Mike Figgis called a "completely mind-blowing" performance.
- Joe Eszterhas sold a four-page outline for the film to New Line for $2.5 million in 1994, with a further $1.5 million to be paid once filming had started.
- Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas asked for his name to be taken off the film's credits after the script had changed so much, and said during filming that he had a lot of respect for Mike Figgis and was curious how it would turn out.
- Mike Figgis changed key characters and added a subplot about a friend dying of AIDS, saying that a good friend of his had died of AIDS and the character was a catalyst who would influence the other people in the film.
- Wesley Snipes, cast as the male lead, said the part was written as a British white man and he almost played it with an English accent.
- Mike Figgis agreed to direct for around $2.5 million on the condition he could rewrite the script and shoot in an informal style, using multiple cameras and allowing improvisation.
