Boxing Helena is the
1993 debut
feature film by
Jennifer Lynch, daughter of
David Lynch. The film stars
Julian Sands and
Sherilyn Fenn as the eponymous Helena.
Plot
Nick Cavanaugh (Sands) is a lonely
Atlanta surgeon obsessed with a girl named Helena (Fenn). After she is injured in a grievous hit-and-run motor vehicle accident in front of his home, he kidnaps and treats her in his house surreptitiously,
amputating both of her legs.
Later, he amputates her healthy arms as well.