The running time quoted by IMDB, "1h 45m," is for the theatrical version. There is also a longer, unrated version, released chiefly for home distribution, running at 1 hr 50 min, five minutes longer. The unrated version includes, among other scenes, two with Kim Basinger, who plays Elena Lincoln, an ex-girlfriend of Christian, and supposed origin of his peculiar tastes. Kim Basinger earlier starred in the movie "9½ Weeks" (1986), a movie about a woman who begins an affair with a man that is characterized by unusual sex games, like the sex in the Fifty Shades trilogy. The book that that movie is based on, by author Elizabeth McNeil (a pseudonym for Ingeborg Day) is, like the "Fifty Shades" books, much more explicit about the S&M aspects of the relationship, although it concludes with an "unhappy" ending, wherein the relationship ends badly. Another difference is that Elizabeth McNeil's original novel is supposedly based on a true story, whereas the author of the Fifty Shades trilogy has never made that claim.
