henry and june have a place in film history a the first picture to be rat nc 17. there be film with much more sex a nudity and offensive material than this that get r in the u . the film tell the love triangle of henry miller ( fred ward ) and his wife june ( the stun uma thurman ) and anais nin ( the equally stunning maria de medeiros ) . there be lot of sex and trip to brothel and a casual lesbian romance and henry bedhopping between the two leading lady . it be this relaxed sexual freedom that be more the moral center of this movie rather than the sex itself . there be some very erotic scene and most notably the notorious and famous lesbian encounter between anais and june towards the end . it be brilliantly film and contain a very early and wonderful role from kevin spacey play a talkative paranoid loser . all these good quality be not bind enough to make a coherent drama of this length . it drag on and have some completely deletable scene . it provide no real insight into the author a a character and but merely use the writer a backdrop to tell the love triangle story . henry and june seem to stop itself short of be purely a sexual film or a drama . but still and it be a very good love triangle story . out of . if you like maria de medeiros here and in pulp fiction and then seek out the small spanish and film goldenballs .