Fool for Love

of Sam Shepard’s claustrophobic play Fool for Love in 1985, with Shepard playing one of the leading roles; and adapted Christopher Durang’s play Beyond Therapy in 1987. The teen comedy O.C. & Stiggs had marked a brief return to work for a major studio (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), but it lingered long on…

…her role in Robert Altman’s Fool for Love (1985; based on a play by Sam Shepard). Basinger costarred with Mickey Rourke in the controversial and explicitly sexual 9 1/2 Weeks (1986). She costarred with Richard Gere in the thriller No Mercy (1986), with Bruce Willis in Blake Edwards’s Blind Date