Boxing Helena is a
bizarre story about obsessive love in which the rejected
suitor, a skillful surgeon, amputates the legs of his lover
when she is hurt in a car accident. He later amputates her
arms and keeps her prisoner in his posh mansion propped up on
a box-like perch until she falls in love with him.
Dr. Nick Cavanaugh
is a highly successful surgeon with a lovely fiance' and all
the trappings of wealth. After a one night stand with Helena,
a stunningly sexy neighbor, he can't get her out of his mind,
but she is no longer interested in him. He is obsessed with
Helena and becomes a voyeur and spies on her as she has sex
with a new lover. He throws a party in the palatial home he
has just inherited in an effort to impress her, but she leaves
the party with one of his buddies. She is condescending and
insulting to him and wants nothing to do with him. Then, as
she storms out of Nick's home in a fit of temper, she is
struck by a car and becomes his unwilling patient and
prisoner.
Animal action is
limited to some brief shots of a parrot on a perch in a cage.
In order to get some wing movement from the parrot, the
trainer merely blew gently on the bird.