Red Shoe Diaries is a 1992 romantic drama television film directed by Zalman King and starring David Duchovny, Brigitte Bako, and Billy Wirth.

The story follows a man who grieves the loss of his fiancée and discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew.

The film is intended as a pilot to the Showtime anthology series Red Shoe Diaries and premiered on the network on May 16, 1992.

While walking home one day, she has a chance meeting with a handsome construction worker when he saves her from a collision with a car by pulling her into his arms.

She goes into the store and buys a pair of red high heels from him, and the man invites her to meet him at his place the following night.

Feeling guilt for her actions, she attempts to pause the affair, but this only prompts Tom to seek Alex out at her interior design job and threaten to make their relationship public.

Afterward, he’s so hurt and doesn't understand, so he reaches out in an unusual way by placing an ad asking for women’s diaries and hearing their stories.

"[1] King, his wife Patricia Louisianna Knop, and producer David Saunders came up with the idea for the pilot film to set the tone and theme for the series to follow.

In The New York Times, John J. O'Connor wrote, "When the actors aren't twirling ecstatically, the camera is revolving about them rhapsodically.

"[6] Negative reviews criticized the film's dialogue and underdeveloped characters, with the Los Angeles Times' Chris Willman referring to the movie as a "yuppies-in-heat story".

[7][8] In Variety, Van Gordon Sauter wrote, "The music has an engaging, edgy flair and the production is admirably mounted", but "the performers have no alternative but to play to the level of their material (written by Patricia Knop and Zalman King), which makes them more objects of sympathy than involvement.

"[9] In his review for New York, John Leonard wrote, "My advice is to stick with these open mouths, burning torches, reeling cameras, running water, and spilled blood until, in the ultimate loft, you arrive at a confrontation scene involving half-naked hunks, blonde Heidis, red shoes, a dog, basketball, and a bottle of champagne.