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• The Australian and Italian version removes original title sequence with the film's title and credits set in metallic type, and replaces it with plain white titles on a black background.
  
  
• USA Blockbuster video version is missing nearly all of the sexual footage. This version runs approx. 10 min shorter than the theatrical release.
  
  
• Portuguese rental video version seems to be the one made for Blockbuster video. For retail the alleged mistake was corrected, though some censored tapes were still seen on sale. The cut scenes are as follows:
  
  
• The censored version removes the shot of the man kissing Catherine's buttocks in the hangar, as some of the images of her expressing pleasure.
  
  
• On the following sequence, the beginning of the sex scene between Ballard and the camera operator is missing. This scene had some seconds of oral sex, with his head hidden behind her body.
  
  
• After the accident, in the hospital, Catherine masturbates Ballard under the bed clothes. Images showing the masturbating movement were cut, as some 'poetic' dialogue describing the way the cars were thorn and how the blood was splattered over metal.
  
  
• One sex scene, in a couch, with Catherine above Ballard is cut from about 30 to 10 sec, removing most of the pelvic movements.
  
  
• After Vaughan's show, he, Ballard and Helen, go together on the front seat of the car. Vaughan fondles Helen between her legs. The censored version cuts immediately after he touches her to the car arriving at Seagraves' house. It's missing a close shot of his hand between her legs, and, most importantly, the reaction of Ballard, who looks at them and smiles.
  
  
• Just after Vaughan's "attack" to Catherine's car, witnessed by Ballard in another car, there's the most explicit scene in the movie. A long sex scene between Ballard and Catherine lying on their sides, with frontal nudity of her. During the sequence, there's a long and quite explicit dialogue, mostly of her asking things about Vaughan - his body, his car -, and questioning Ballard if he desires to have sex with him. The scene has about 3 and a half minutes and was completely cut.
  
  
• A sequence with Ballard and Helen on a car follows the previous. There's a shot of her on top of him, facing the camera and with some frontal nudity (very dark). She then asks "did you come?", and he answers "I'm OK". The continuous cut starts on the end of the "attack", mentioned on the previous entry, and ends with the couple finishing to dress up, side by side on the car. Altogether more than 4 minutes are missing.
  
  
• At Seagraves' place, while watching car crash tests, there's a short panning, showing Gabrielle, Helen and Ballard fondling each other between the legs, completely removed.
  
  
• In Vaughan's car, with the prostitute, there are three shots, with the camera panning from Ballard's face (driving) to the sexual practices on the back seat. The first two shots end showing Vaughan manually stimulating the prostitute and the third one with him pulling her on top of him before some sexual movement. On the censored version there's almost only shots of Ballards face, and only a bit of the final shot is shown.
  
  
• In the car wash scene, Ballards watches from the front seat as Catherine has sex with Vaughan. The cuts are similar to the ones previously described, because the scene is very similar (voyeuristic satisfaction from Ballard shown in same kind of shots, panning from his face to the back seat.). Three shots of Vaughan's hand on Catherine's genitals are removed, as the scene were her hand covered in semen reaches for the front seat.
  
  
• The following sequence was completely cut. It's a shot with full frontal nudity, showing Catherine's body with a lot of marks from the violence of the previous scene. A first shot was a close up of her pubic area, with the mark of a hand on her thigh. More than one minute cut.
  
  
• The sex scene between Gabrielle and Ballard was slightly trimmed. Some sexual movements were cut (but the scene is from Ballard's chest up), as a shot of her face showing pleasure. Strangely, the sound was kept in a way she seems to be having pleasure *after* he stops.
  
  
• The ending of the movie is changed. After Catherine's crash, Ballard reaches her, lying at the car's side. On the censored version, he lies beside her, says twice "maybe the next time" and the credits enter. Originally the scenes follows up, showing them starting to have sex. A final shot shows them on ground with some frontal nudity of hers, with the car besides them, as the camera pans out. This final cut has more than one minute.
  
  
• A broadcast of the film on the Canadian cable network Showcase purported to be the uncut version of the film, but is missing at least one of the sex scenes.
  
  
• The North American DVD contains both the R and NC-17 versions of the film.
  
  
• Irish film and video versions were cut by 35 seconds. The cut removes the explicit dialogue from the sex scene between Ballard and his wife in their bed. DVD version is uncut, and the film has been shown uncut on Irish television station TV3.
  
  

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