But looking beyond that misstep, this is an excellent character study filled with inspired casting choices and a number of stars attempting some image-breaking acting. These real world dilemmas and relationships are exquisitely realized, so that's why it's a real deal-breaker when Figgis cops out with an "only in Hollywood" style ending that tidies up things plot-wise, but leaves viewers feeling cheated. A year later, Max and Karen meet again by chance, but this time theyre with their spouses. He returns to his wife, 2 kids and career in LA but is affected. Max/W.Snipes has a one night stand with Karen/N.Kinski in NYC. More popular movies like One Night Stand on 123movies. When Max returns home to L.A., he realizes how empty and stale his life is. One Night Stand - Max/W.Snipes has a one night stand with Karen/N.Kinski in NYC. This chance meeting leads to a one night stand. While visiting his friend Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.), a choreographer dying of AIDS, he meets willowy beauty Karen (Nastassja Kinski).
With Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na Wen. Max (Wesley Snipes) is a commercial director in New York on business. Set against the backdrop of Snipes' friend who is dying of AIDS, (gut-wrenchingly played by Robert Downey Jr.) there's a real sense of "quiet desperation" here, and the need to "fix what's broken." One Night Stand: Directed by Mike Figgis. It's largely a very simple story tracing the deconstruction of a marriage after Snipes gets a glimpse of something truly passionate. The event, in turn, permeates Snipes relationship with his irritating wife (gloriously overplayed by Ming Na-Wen in a role that would shock her ER fan base) and steadily dissolves their once seemingly healthy marriage.
An ensemble drama anchored by an action-film star? It's no surprise that great movie experimentalist Mike Figgis would attempt to pull something this complex off with someone Wesley Snipes, but the choice was on the money, and Snipes does well in his role as a married commercial director who spends an erotic and emotional evening in New York City with the incredibly sexy Nastassja Kinski.
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