Henry & June (1990)

Author Henry Miller is a revered literary god among the pantheon of American iconoclast writers, but there is ample proof to indicate that he thought of himself primarily as a libido on the loose. Miller spent, and profligately so, much of his adult life among the hookers and other easy-virtue ladies of Paris, France, which is where the action of Henry & June (1990), a biographical bacchanal based on Miller (Fred Ward) and his wife June (Uma Thurman), picks up and leaves off. Casual sex with a steady stream of willing, able prostitutes, recreational lesbianism, and pimping out one’s wife to a predatory femme may not be culturally revolutionary activities that they were in Henry Miller’s prime, but they still make for prime movie entertainment. Towards the end of the film, Ward cuts through the proliferation of female flesh and displays his muscular, meaty man seat during a thrusting sex scene. Ward has the right stuff to get you headed toward bliss.