Retrospective: Seducing the Screen in 'The Rachel Papers' (1989)
The "Rachel" of the title is Rachel Noyce (Ione Skye), a stunning American living in London. Charles makes it his mission to win her over, eventually prying her away from her unctuous, older boyfriend, DeForest—played with "wonderfully sly" arrogance by James Spader . Why It’s a Cult Classic Ione_Skye_The_Rachel_Rapers_1989.1080p.webrip.h...
Based on the debut novel by Martin Amis, the film follows 19-year-old Charles Highway (Dexter Fletcher) as he prepares for his Oxford entrance exams. Charles is obsessed with seduction, but rather than using charm, he relies on a meticulously organized computer database of "research files" on every woman he targets. Retrospective: Seducing the Screen in 'The Rachel Papers'
: The film features a "hoot" of a supporting performance by Jonathan Pryce as Charles's eccentric brother-in-law, along with early appearances by Michael Gambon and Jared Harris. The Legacy Charles is obsessed with seduction, but rather than
Released in the same year as her iconic breakout in Say Anything... , Ione Skye took on a very different kind of romantic interest in . While Lloyd Dobler was the ultimate romantic optimist, this British cult classic—directed by Damian Harris—introduced us to Charles Highway, a protagonist whose approach to love was far more clinical and, as critics from Variety noted, "less than endearing." The Plot: Romance by the Byte