Welcome to Brazil, where they party all day and party all night. Or so director Zalman King, master of well-dressed erotic claptrap, would have us believe. Leggy young lawyer Carré Otis is overwhelmed by the eroticism of the place, what with voluptuous couples having sex around every corner and even in the back seat of a car next to her. Small wonder that when she can't get frigid wheeler-dealer Mickey Rourke to respond to her, the virginal Otis, breathing heavily, goes off for a steamy session with an American who thinks she's a hooker. He subsequently proves to be her opponent in a land deal being negotiated by her decadent boss (Jacqueline Bisset). All this is probably giving the film credit for more plot than it has, especially when you consider it runs nearly two hours. Rourke, underplaying, and Otis, wide-eyed, do what they can to play the Rio sex-and-soap opera straight. Bisset over-acts with relish, probably just as well with dialogue that has Dallas licked all the way. It's like an old Warners melodrama, only feverishly overheated and running completely out of control.

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