Red Shoe Diaries - The Movie

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Summary: Question answered....
Review: For the person who asked, I think it was Mark from Boston, there are actually 3 different versions of this single Red Shoe Diaries movie. All three versions end the same way, but the difference is the sex scene in the bathroom between Tom (Billy Wirth) and Heidi #2. The versions are 1) Rated R 2) Unrated 3) An Euro version called Wild Orchid III. Hope this helps.

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Summary: EXCELLENT Movie - Watch With Your Lover!
Review: Here is a great movie to watch with someone you love! I watched at first because of David Duchovny (who must absolutely be the sexiest man on earth!) and I was not disappointed. How my heart went out to him in his moments of pain in the movie as he retraced the last days of his "once-in-a-lifetime" love. The movie is a little on the long side, but I found it very, very enjoyable throughout.

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Summary: DVD - Red Shoe Diaries
Review: Hi there! This movie was AWESOME! I was lucky to get the DVD Version of this movie (the first movie - pilot) and it was great :) I heard that there are two versions of this movie.....the movie I have ends with the basketball game with Billy feeling bad about himself (he thinks he may always be a shoe salesman) and it closes with Jack phoning in the ad. What other versions are there? The soundtrack is also GREAT, bye :) [e-mail]

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Summary: A suprise
Review: I honsetly didn't think I'd enjoy this movie...I bought it just to see David Duchovny. Well, I enjoyed it, and not because of him. The movie wasn't a "sex" movie. I mean, there was obviously sex in it but people weren't running around naked for the entire 2 hours. The movie had an actual STORY to it, and a good one at that. David did an excellent job with his character. He was highly believable in his role. I highly reccomend this!

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Summary: The Agony and the ecstasy of "Red Shoe Diaries"
Review: Over a year ago, I came across a pre-owned VHS copy of the "Red Shoe Diaries" pilot. I knew Duchovny starred in it, being a big X-Files fan and having caught an installment or two on Showtime in which he only began and ended it. I cannot tell you how glad I am that I bought that video.

The pilot film blows away every other installment I have seen, because it provides a bittersweet backstory for the whole series. Duchovny plays Jake, a handsome and successful architect living and working in L.A. He is deeply in love with his live-in girlfriend, who later becomes his fiancee'. Her name is Alex, (played by an actress named Brigitte Bako), and she is an interior designer. Jake and Alex seem to be the perfect couple with the perfect life and love.... but looks can be decieving. This is evidenced by the fact that the film opens with Alex's funeral, and Jake's inconsoleable grief.

Upon returning home and starting to pack up Alex's belongings, the mourning Jake finds two key things: Alex's secret diary, and a pair of red high-heeled Kenneth Cole shoes. As he begins to read her diary, sudden loss is cruelly compounded by the crushing discovery of betrayal and infidelity. It seems Jake was so blinded by love and pre-occupied with work that he failed to see just what a dysfunctional tragedy waiting to happen his Alex really was.... a fact which began to reveal itself first with his discovery of her lifeless body, and continuing as he got caught up in the diary's chronicle of Alex's secret other life and paramour.

This other man was Tom (played by the scrumptious Billy Wirth, easily as hot as DD), who worked both as a construction worker and a shoe salesman. It is through him that Alex acquires the red shoes. They have a hot, steamy affair, but the problem is that once Alex accepts Jake's proposal, she finds herself unable to end it. Needing a sense of control she's never felt in her life drove her to the affair... now she has lost all control, which leads her to the rash and foolish solution of suicide.

Grief-stricken and stunned, Jake becomes obssessed with confronting the other man, which he does in the climax of the film. In the end, it solves nothing for him, and thus begins his quest to heal his broken heart through the secret stories of other women, which he procures through an ongoning ad in the newspaper. He hopes to gain insight into Alex's actions through other women's experiences. To our knowledge, his quest for inner peace through literary voyeurism goes on.

This film was stylish, sensual, and heartbreaking. Say what you like about Duchovny's acting ability, he at least has a knack for angsty roles. His turn as Jake was a precursor to the angsty hero Fox Mulder in "The X-Files". The musical soundtrack is also quite good, I own it, as well. Even if you aren't a big fan of the whole RSD series (as I am not), this pilot film is worth watching.

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Summary: Good Heavens!
Review: The pre-X-Files David Duchovny is an out-and-out hunk. Brigitte Bako does an inspiring turn as the beautiful and tormented object of desire, and Billy Wirth is hot buck-naked sex personified. If you've never even heard of the Red Shoe Diaries, rent this pilot or better yet, buy it. There's something in it for everyone.

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Summary: a pair of red high heeled shoes, a woman, two men....
Review: This is a gorgeous, delicious, sensuous and hypnotic movie which could have been a play but the dialogue is pretty sparse and the visualization is too yummy and glorious to be anything but what it is: a movie by Zalman King which became the pilot for the "Red Shoe Diaries" serial on Showtime, the cable network.

The only woman who made me want to be other than myself (I want to come back to life as Brigette Bako), Bako is too beautiful to describe into words: she looks neither black nor white but some kind of a mixture of the two races; she is not a woman and not a child, but gives off mixed qualities depending on which scene; and she is such that she looks to be an alien--skinny but somehow full, not so beautiful conventionally but really glorious looking (and sounding) and enormously effective as the phlegmatic yet haunted Alex who is loved by a powerful and dynamic Jake (a pre-"X-files" David Duchovney) her finance with whom she lives in a converted warehouse in downtown LA.

Jake is a successful architect and Alex marvels at his drive and ambition. She herself feels a bit like a fish out of water, not quite comfortable or sure of herself, and NOT quite so dedicated or passionate about her work as an interior designer. She is searching for some meaning in her life. Her life with Jake was probably a reaction to her strained relationship with her overbearing mother. She is caught between two strong characters: her mother and her future husband.

Then one day per chance, she meets Tom (Billy Wirth, probably the most beautiful man ever captured on screen), a shoe sales man cum construction worker. The chemistry between them is SO hot (their first scene together is when he recommends and puts on her feet, a pair of very red high heels) that they end up jumping into bed before even knowing each other's names. When she tries to leave Tom, she can't.

Now, torn between two men who want her, what can she do??

Watch this movie...it is so amazing, so sumptuous, so profound and very well made. The movie is about control, about love, possession, passion, classism and yes, about GREAT SEX and what can happen if you get it outside of your primary relationship.

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Summary: A woman's movie for sure--how erotic!
Review: This movie is on my list of "chick" movies or those movies that would appeal to our female need for sexiness, erotic content, and, sometimes, a competent storyline. Other movies on my list would be "Two Moon Junction", "Against All Odds" and "Thief of Hearts". I don't know why David Duchovny seems to shy away from mentioning his participation in this movie and the Showtime cable series that came after. He was so palpably sexy in this movie, and in the "Jake's Story" episode of "Red Shoes" the series. Billy Wirth is also mighty fine to look at as well. How can a girl choose between these two fine specimens? Sigh...

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Summary: A woman's movie for sure--how erotic!
Review: This movie is on my list of "chick" movies or those movies that would appeal to our female need for sexiness, erotic content, and, sometimes, a competent storyline. Other movies on my list would be "Two Moon Junction", "Against All Odds" and "Thief of Hearts". I don't know why David Duchovny seems to shy away from mentioning his participation in this movie and the Showtime cable series that came after. He was so palpably sexy in this movie, and in the "Jake's Story" episode of "Red Shoes" the series. Billy Wirth is also mighty fine to look at as well. How can a girl choose between these two fine specimens? Sigh...

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Summary: Billy Wirth is the ultimate Greek god.
Review: This movie is one of those that you don't get tired of watching. It is sexy and romantic in an unususal way. Billy Wirth is the highlight in the film, he is a great actor that unfortunatelly has not gotten any recognition. I can watch this movie a million times just to see him. He has god like infinite beauty and his appeal makes this film a must have.