1990s; as a result, it lacked the taboo representations she had previously been able to show in her work. Numerous scenes were removed and some never shot, in the studio's attempts to present what they termed an "acceptable" vision of the lead's sexuality to a mass audience. While Borden found herself in the position to direct a mainstream production, she said her power over the film's content was disrupted by (as she put it) "everyone else's psyches ... with their fetishes, and what they don't like." The studio took away much of Borden's control over the final product and even went so far as to cut out the original ending that Borden had shot, substituting its own. "I went to movie jail after I did this awful movie, Love Crimes. I should have taken my name off it, but I was bullied into not taking my name off it. There are things in it that I didn't shoot. It's just not my movie, really." Love Crimes was released in theaters on January 24, 1992 and quickly tanked – it was pulled from release after three weeks due to poor box office. It recouped less than half of its budget. For its VHS release, Borden negotiated the restoration of several scenes originally cut from the theatrical release. As a result, two versions of the film were released on video in July 1992: the original 84-minute theatrical version and a second, "unrated" version at 91 minutes. "The problems really came down to sex," Borden said. "My vision of what I wanted, of how I wanted to explore the character (played by Sean Young) and her sexual needs and desires just wasn't acceptable or accepted. The sadomasochistic element of the film as I envisioned it was too scary for the people writing the checks. And then I didn't get the final cut." The VHS release of the film's unrated version became a fast seller and it remains a cult favorite and highly collectible. In 2018, Borden disowned the "director's cut" label as a misnomer, and a marketing ploy by the studio and Harvey Weinstein, who she later said "threatened to destroy my career." After the critical and box office failure of Love Crimes, Borden suspected that Weinstein branded her as "difficult." As a result, she ran into difficulty setting up further film projects. She ventured into television with mixed results, and worked with