When Max returns to New York withMimi to comfort his ailing friend, he finds himself face-to-face with Karen,who is married to Charlie's conservative brother, Vernon (Kyle MacLACHLAN).Thrown together by fate, Max and Karen try to resist their mutual feelings,but ultimately they are forced to confront an undeniable truth. One year later, Max's best friend, Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.) is hospitalizedas he battles the last stages of AIDS. When he returnshome, he slowly begins to withdraw from the people closest to him, as hiswife (Ming-Na Wen) struggles to understand her changed husband, his newattitude, and the distance that has so quickly grown between them. Although each vows toforget the psycho-sexual ballet that has consumed these formerly faithfulspouses, Max is plagued with memories of this scorching tryst.

Untilone night while on a trip to New York City, a chance encounter leads toa passionate and uncharacteristic affair with a beautiful, seductive andvery married woman named Karen (NASTASSJA KINSKI). On the surface, Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) has it all: a happy marriage,two healthy children and a successful career as a commercial director. One Night Stand will be released byNew Line Cinema in the United States on November 14, 1997. Starring WesleySnipes, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Downey Jr., Ming-Na Wen and Kyle MacLachlan,the film premiered this year at the Venice Film Festival and garnered Snipesthe Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor.

From Mike Figgis, the Academy Award®-nominated director of LeavingLas Vegas, comes One Night Stand, an erotically charged love story thatexplores the multi-layered ramifications of infidelity.

One night stand 1997