9 1⁄2 Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film based on the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day. It stars Kim Basinger as Elizabeth McGraw and Mickey Rourke as John Gray. McGraw is a New York City art gallery employee who has a brief yet intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street broker. In 1997, a sequel called Another ​9 1⁄2 Weeks was released via direct-to-video. It stars Rourke and Angie Everhart and was directed by Anne Goursaud. In 1998, a second straight-to-video film was released, this one a prequel called The First ​9 1⁄2 Weeks that starred Paul Mercurio and Clara Bellar.