9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. The film follows a New York City art gallery employee (Basinger) who has a brief yet intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street broker (Rourke). The screenplay by Patricia Knop, Zalman King, and Sarah Kernochan is adapted from the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day, under the pseudonym "Elizabeth McNeill".