Zalman King's

After investing in ANGEL and turning down CHILDREN OF THE CORN, the investor, Don Levin, offered me a partnership. I produced this under our (now defunct) company, DDM. Now, I needed a movie to make and called Nick Kazan. For whatever reasons, we could not reach an agreement on his PUNK DADDY. Next I called Andy Tenant and we could not make a deal on his MOVING TARGET. Finally I called Zalman King. He said he just finished a new script and hadn't made a copy yet. I offered to send a runner to pick up his script, make copies for him and one for me. Within a week we flew to Chicago, closed a deal with Don Levin, and started production.

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

A 1988 American romance drama written & directed by Zalman King, produced by Donald P. Borchers, cinematography by Mark Plummer, music by Jonathan Elias, starring Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, Kristy McNichol, Milla Jovovich, Martin Hewitt, Don Galloway, Millie Perkins, Dabbs Greer, Chris Pedersen, Hervé Villechaize, and an onscreen performance by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. The final film of Hervé Villechaize and Burl Ives. Milla Jovovich makes her screen debut. Features two Oscar winners, Louise Fletcher and Burl Ives, and one Oscar nominee Juanita Moore.

After reading the script, Kristy McNichol said she really wanted to play Patti Jean because the character was more like her in real life than any other character she had played. But she wasn't sure how her fans would react to it. She finally decided to just do it for herself, not them.

Los Angeles Times Movie Review by Kevin Thomas, May 2, 1988, "Zalman King’s “Two Moon Junction” (citywide) is a genuine rarity in mainstream American movies: a passionate love story presented with honest-yet-tasteful sexual candor--and without sniggers, kinkiness or violence. Unlike pornography, it takes place in a recognizably real world. It is a much better film than “9 1/2 Weeks,” which King wrote and produced.
On the surface, Sherilyn Fenn’s April would seem to have everything while Richard Tyson’s Perry has nothing more than his truck, motorbike “and a post-office box in Clearwater, Fla.” April is the ultimate Southern belle, breathtakingly beautiful, whose family is rich, powerful and aristocratic. Her fiance (Martin Hewitt), whom she is to marry in two weeks, is handsome and as privileged as she is. April is as gracious and dutiful as one would expect of a person of her breeding. But once she locks eyes with Perry, a carnival roustabout, she is immediately thrown into conflict with the future that has been so thoroughly planned for her. Long-haired, tanned and sleekly muscled, Perry is a Greek god and he knows it. He is as spectacular as she is, and it would be inconceivable for them not to be instantly and intensely attracted to each other. If any two people could get by on looks alone, it would be these two. But, just as newcomers Fenn and Tyson prove to be capable, likable actors, King has taken care to make April and Perry believable, involving people. April knows exactly what’s at stake if she should lose her head over Perry, just as he realizes he might lose his precious freedom if he were actually to fall for her. From this timeless predicament King works up a surprising amount of suspense while he succinctly sketches in a most persuasive portrait of upper-crust Southern society. King brings a bold visual style to his love story that might seem flashy if it were not so apt an expression of the couple’s heady lust for each other. There have been longer and more explicit love scenes in R-rated movies than there are in this film. However, they are scorchers for sure, both for the physical splendor of the film’s stars and for what King leaves to the imagination. Kristy McNichol is terrific as an earthy hairdresser with a great sense of humor. She’s one of Perry’s girls who befriends rather than resents April--and is perhaps even more than a little attracted to April herself. In her brief appearance McNichol leaves a tantalizing impression of sexual ambiguity. By the same token, Louise Fletcher is memorable as April’s glamorous, platinum-blond grandmother who recognizes her own passionate nature in her granddaughter and is prepared to go to extremes to curb it. Burl Ives is her good friend, the local sheriff. “Two Moon Junction” (rated an appropriate R) is daring and decidedly vulnerable”

Soundtrack Credits:
- Lo, How A Rose E're Blooming - Written by Michael Praetorius, Performed by The Notre Dame Glee Club
- Who Do You Love? - Written by E. McDaniel, Performed by George Thorogood
- You Are So Beautiful - Written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher, Performed by Martin Hewitt
- Dig - Written & Performed by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- Man With A Gun - Written by Jerry Harrison, Performed by Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods