Zandalee is a 1991 American erotic thriller/romantic tragedy directed by Sam Pillsbury, and starring Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson, Viveca Lindfors, Aaron Neville, Joe Pantoliano and Steve Buscemi.

The screenplay by Mari Kornhauser is based on Émile Zola's 1867 novel and 1873 play Thérèse Raquin.

[4] Zandalee Martin is a young boutique store owner living in New Orleans who is sexually frustrated and feeling unfulfilled with her marriage to Thierry Martin, and eventually gets tangled in a passionate, sensual and torrid adulterous affair with her husband's mysterious and free-spirited old friend Johnny Collins.

Their sexual liaisons continue to occur in various places, including her laundry room atop a washing machine while Thierry and guests are having dinner.

However, Zandalee feels that she must never abandon Thierry, and quickly ends her affair with Johnny after he forces himself on her in the confessional.

The drug dealer flees from the scene of the crime, leaving behind Johnny, now alone, as he cradles and holds Zandalee's dead body.

Erika Anderson said that in the scene where Nicolas Cage paints her naked body, the actor "put in such brutality and such participatory violence, that I was terrified, I felt really violated.

Other countries releasing the film were Germany, on May 9, 1991, the United Kingdom on May 10, 1991, Hong Kong on May 16, 1991, the Netherlands on November 15, 1991 and Australia on February 13, 1992.

[6] Nathan Rabin called it a perfect vehicle for Cage and dug it up as a lost gem for his My Year of Flops column in The A.V.

It's right up there with Wicker Man on the Nicolas Cage guilty pleasureometer, a lost camp gem filled with inadvertent hilarity and populated by heavyweight actors who would go on to do great things, including Steve Buscemi as a zany, horny, oddly philosophical thief who pops up at random intervals.