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| | Label: Republic Pictures
Salesrank: 48149
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Destined for cult status, this provocative thriller offers a grab bag of genres (gangster movie, comedy, sexy romance, crime caper) and tops it all off with steamy passion between lesbian ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) and a not-so-ditzy gun moll named Violet (Jennifer Tilly), who meets Corky and immediately tires of her mobster boyfriend (Joe Pantoliano). Desperate to break away from the Mob's influence and live happily ever after, the daring dames hatch a plot to steal $2 million of Mafia money. Their scheme runs into a series of escalating complications, until their very survival depends on split-second timing and criminal ingenuity. Simultaneously violent, funny, and suspenseful, Bound is sure to test your tolerance for bloodshed, but the film is crafted with such undeniable skill that several critics (including Roger Ebert) placed it on their top-ten lists for 1996. --Jeff Shannon
Bound (Unrated) Reviews:
Love this Movie still! 
2009-10-27 - Bound is one of my favorites. Thank you so much! The price was very affodable, it arrived quickly and in excellent condition! I would absolutely buy from you again. :)
Cinderella and the Princess
2009-10-11 - This is not so much a love story as a relationship story. It is not a terribly strong relationship story. If anything it is about taking a chance on the strength of a relationship and keeping commitments with potentially lost causes ... things work out this time if you can buy into the situation out in front. It is a pure fantasy to start off with. I can imagine calling it "Cinderella and the Princess" but the obvious Cinderella doesn't have any sisters that we know of and the Princess is low man on her totem-pole, for sure. Together, not really trusting each other, they commit to each other "anyway" and, when everything falls apart in the middle of the caper they hang tight and battle individually through to their eventual reunion. There is suspense. Once things get moving it is one change after another in rapid-fire succession until the very end. About half-way through you think it is almost over and then everything starts falling apart. It goes on and on and on. There is violence. It is sudden violence. Torture is depicted. There is lots of blood. There is not so much skin but there is a lot of female sexuality expressed. This is a story about sex and a couple of very tough chicks "walking tall".
Exceptional ..... I loved it!
2009-09-19 - This is one of the very few movies that I've watched more than once. Superb acting combined with a terrific storyline... hard to beat. One of those thrillers that kept me on the edge of my seat. Bravo!
NEW AGE NOIR A CULT CLASSIC
2009-09-06 - This is a refreshing, overlooked noir classic by the Wachowski brothers of MATRIX fame. Glued to my seat at the theatre for this one. Simple gangster tale but different as it is done with a modern-day stroke of the brush and effrontery---two gay femmes being the smart alecks. All about a gangster and his moll, the former accountable for the pick-up and timely delivery of a huge sum of mob money to big kahuna gang boss who's flying in to make the pick-up personally. Slight problem as gangster's lady conspires with female plumber/handy-"man" working in their building to steal the cash and place the blame on gangland incompetence. Major problem as the boy[s] responsible for the loss will have to pay with their heads---Mafia style. The gangster responsible for the cash is played by an always engaging pre-SOPRANOS Joe Pantoliano [as Caesar] who gives a MEMORABLE and RIVETING performance and basically steals the show [though not the money]. His back-stabbing babe is played perturbingly well by Jennifer Tilly and the pipe-cleaner [no pun intended] is played convincingly well by Gina Gershon. Christopher Meloni as Johnnie Marzzone [pre- LAW AND ORDER and OZ] is ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS as the son of Mafia boss Gino Marzzone. Johnnie and Caesar despise each other, mainly the result of mutual envy and the fact that Johnnie has tunnel-vision for Caesar's lady. Their antagonistic banter is loads of fun. All hell breaks loose once Caesar returns home with the cash only to have it disappear. He knows this is a death sentence. Spurred on by Tilly's subterfuge Caesar goes into a paranoid frenzy as the clock ticks for Don Gino's arrival. Very tense and suspenseful action here as Caeasar cracks and starts dispatching prime suspects of the theft starting with Johnnie and ending with the purgative and unexpected execution of the Don himself---this the point of no return. With bodies starting to pile up in his bathtub the cops come knocking on his door in response to a neighbor's complaint of hearing gunfire. Got to see the rest yourself. Wince-inducing "ask-ya-ten-times" bathroom scene with a guy losing a finger each time he doesn't come up with the desired answer is brutal. The whispering femme fatale Tilly and beer-guzzling Gershon quite a pair as they heat up the tension, Pantoliano's temper and themselves. Highly recommended.
Real suspense, at last
2008-12-22 - At this moment is really hard to find some movie with real suspense, in BOUND you'll find a lot of it.
