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PURCHASE THE DVD: In the Cut (2003)

When they said this 2003 crime thriller was a vast departure for Meg Ryan, I assumed they meant because of some nudity, and I also assumed it was fairly brief nudity. Boy, was I wrong. In the uncut directors version, you get an explicit oral sex scene (not by Ryan), several explicit sex scenes and nudity (by Ryan), and language that would make a sailor blush (by everybody).

When a bodyless head ends up in her garden, a New York writing professor is questioned as a witness by a detective who takes an interest in her. As the affair grows, it begins to look like he may be both the hunter and the hunted.

Director Jane Campion must have been having a bad day for all the months this movie was filmed, because she didn't have any really likeable characters in this movie. Every one of them, including the heroine, has a really sleazy quality that she brings out by showing tons of sex and some of the roughest language you'll likely hear in a movie. I suspect the theatre-released R rated version is a lot tamer than the uncut version I saw, because the uncut version is basically X.