USA | 1996 | 108 mins | R
Sparks fly when Violet (Jennifer Tilly) sets eyes on Corky (Gina Gershon) in an elevator. Violet is the girlfriend of a violent gangster, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), while Corky is fresh out of prison and doing renovations on the apartment next door. As the two women launch into a passionate love affair, they assemble an intricate plan for Violet to escape from Caesar, with two million dollars of the mob’s money — but the important part is to make it out alive.
Director: The Wachowskis
Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon
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DETAILS
BOUND (1996) – The Wachowskis announced their uncompromising (and forthrightly queer) directorial vision with BOUND, a lesbian neo-noir whose precise geometry and restrained colour palette (inspired by Frank Miller) prefigured the Matrix’s visual mastery – but with a taut sexual chemistry all its own, as a scenery-chewing ultra-butch Gina Gershon (in a role as deservedly iconic as her turn right before it in SHOWGIRLS) is seduced by breathy femme fatale Jennifer Tilly into a scheme that spirals into mayhem, seduction, and double-cross. Unmissably sexy, unstoppably cool.
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