But neither can shake each other’s memory. Out of that brush with danger, the two spend a hot night together before Max returns to L.A. The duo shares Woody-ish high culture at a string-quartet concert and cool culture at a jazz club, only to be mugged at knifepoint (in broad night-light by a well-spoken middle-aged couple, the her of whom grabs Karen’s breast for good measure). In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a. Away from his deprecatingly perky wife (Ming-Na Wen) and kids, Max meets Karen (Nastassja Kinski, biting her lip to denote spiritual depth), a creamy mystery woman, in a hotel lobby otherwise overrun with jabbering U.N. Sometimes an entire life can change in just one night. In One Night Stand (New Line) - a poor Figgis approximation of a threadbare Woody Allen fantasy, minus the jokes - Wesley Snipes attempts to figure out how to play Max, a hip-to-the-groove commercial director from Los Angeles on business in NYC with far too many ascots in his suitcase.

Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) lives in California, where.

British director Mike Figgis obviously has not read Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s press releases trumpeting New York City’s safer-and-saner image. A mans brief fling threatens to ruin what he values most in life in this drama.

One night stand 1997