The Glo Movie Night: Bound (1996)
Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar. (NR, 108 min.)
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Before they blew the world’s mind with The Matrix, Lana and Lilly Wachowski delivered a jolt of pure pulp pleasure with their hyperstylish debut, which puts a deliciously sapphic spin on a crackerjack caper premise. When butch plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) catches the eye of alluring femme (fatale) Violet (Jennifer Tilly), little does she know she’s about to be drawn into both a torrid affair and a high-stakes heist that will pit the pair against the mob. With crackling dialogue, luscious neonoir cinematography, and live-wire performances by Gershon, Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano, Bound is a genre-reimagining joyride that keeps both the tension and the erotic heat rising through each crazily careening twist. [Criterion]
Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Genre: Crime, Thriller
"Bound is one of the great Trojan horses in cinema history."
— Drew Gregory, Autostraddle
"It has been 30 years since Bound hit theaters, and time has only made the film more impactful."
— Megan Loucks, InSession Film
"Bound is one of those movies that works you up, wrings you out and leaves you gasping. It's pure cinema, spread over several genres."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Before the Wachowski sisters gave us the scoop on The Matrix, they pushed boundaries during the 90s indie boom with this neo-noir."
— Andrea Thompson, Chicago Reader
"One of the most assured first films you’ll ever see, Bound rearranges and pressurizes ‘50s noir tropes into a sexy, cathartic queer thriller."
— Chance Solem-Pfeifer, Willamette Week
"Brilliant as a skilled visual showcase worthy of Hitchcock or Brian De Palma, the film operates on several levels, from the emotional to the visceral."
— Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review
"The true pleasures of Bound lie in the Wachowskis' inventive updated take on film noir traditions, sensuously realized by cinematographer Bill Pope."
— Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"A steamy crime thriller (and significant LGBTQ film) that contains more suggestive double entendres in its dialogue than perhaps any movie this side of Double Indemnity."
— Matt Brunson, Film Frenzy
"1996’s Bound has Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly as co-conspirators and lovers in what’s not just one of the great neo-noirs, but way up there amongst mainstream Hollywood depictions of lesbian love and lust."
— Dennis Harvey, 48 Hills
"This writing and directing team has chosen as its filmmaking debut a tightly constructed, stylishly (but rarely self-consciously) executed, gripping little noir parable that couldn't be more firmly grounded in American movie tradition if the filmmakers created a wacky romantic farce about mismatched paramours."
— Jimmy Fowler, Dallas Observer
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