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Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly nearly set the screen on fire in this clever, female-powered twist on the standard Mob caper film. Gershon is Corky, an ex-con renovating the apartment next door to where Tilly's Violet lives. Violet is the moll of psychotic gangster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), who uses the apartment as an .. Read more

Starring	Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, John Ryan
Director	The Wachowski Brothers
Genres	Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Thriller

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- Chicago: when hood's moll Violet (Tilly) and ex-con Corky (Gershon) size each other up across a corridor, things soon... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:13
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  - 6
  The Warshowski ...
  
  The Warshowski Brothers before The Matrix:
  
  Two women take over the Chicago mob! They are lovers. Straight enough plot! What the Warshowski Brothers ... read more »
  
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  - JenKFilmBuffette#1
  - LONDON
  - 07 Jan 2004 at 17:31
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- - 0
  - 0
  Mob movie with a twist
  
  Absolutely great take on the classic mob genre.
  
  Well scripted, wonderfully shot and with a gripping clever storyline that gives the characters and ... read more »
  
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- - raventhorn
  - 8 reviews
  - Brighton
  - 29 Nov 2011 at 12:54
- - 0
  - 0
  bound and gagging for it
  
  the plot is pure mafia crime and strong language and violence throughout..but the love-story has a unique lesbian twist and the fire between jennifer tilly and ... read more »
  
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- 1045932
- - jaz67
  - 10 reviews
  - Camberley
  - 29 Sep 2011 at 02:35
- - 0
  - 0
  Great film
  
  We really enjoyed this film. It is a tense thriller with plenty of twists and turns. It will keep you guessing until the end, and is well directed and acted. A ... read more »
  
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- - BatmanDan
  - 16 reviews
  - Newton Aycliffe
  - 21 Sep 2011 at 11:24
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  - 0
  sugar bee
  
  top film worth waching on a boring saturday evning i thought it was worth it just shows wat women go through and when love comes along ull do anything to keep ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 23 Jun 2011 at 18:21
- - 0
  - 3
  Very poor
  
  I tried hard to like it but had to give up watching after about 15 mins. The lesbian love affair had no depth or believability about it, it was unneccesarily ... read more »
  
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- 991131
- - a customer
  - 10 May 2011 at 11:12
- - 0
  - 0
  I own this. Iconic
  
  A piece of sapphic celluloid history. This and Mulholland Drive are dark restless films defining an aspect of reality that is underground to most. Not to be ... read more »
  
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- - Anniegetyogun
  - 112 reviews
  - Down South
  - 04 Apr 2011 at 21:51
- - 1
  - 0
  BOUND (to enjoy it!)
  
  Ultra-cool, super-sexy film noir with a twist, the two leads really do set the screen on fire ! Quite a bit of violence, but then this is a film that involves ... read more »
  
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  - DOVER
  - 24 Mar 2011 at 17:51
- - 0
  - 0
  Give it a chance
  
  Bit uncomfortable in the beginning a bit over the top with the lesbian aspect. Beyond that a fantastic film, great camera angles and photography. You can see ... read more »
  
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  - Grantham
  - 24 Feb 2011 at 19:39
- - 1
  - 0
  Black Telephones
  
  A good mob movie, some predicable moments and I did kinda guess where it was heading. Not that this was a problem but there was some overuse of lesbian erotica... read more »
  
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- - mad4films
  - 126 reviews
  - Benfleet
  - 18 Feb 2010 at 10:22
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  - 0
  Bound
  
  A good thriller with miss tilley heading a good strong cast. But most of the actors are not the big names we all came to know.
  
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  - Weymouth
  - 12 Feb 2010 at 21:24
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- - 28
  - 6
  The Warshowski ...
  
  The Warshowski Brothers before The Matrix:
  
  Two women take over the Chicago mob! They are lovers. Straight enough plot! What the Warshowski Brothers ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 26603
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - JenKFilmBuffette#1
  - LONDON
  - 07 Jan 2004 at 17:31
- - 12
  - 0
  TOP MOVIE !!!
  
  Bound is smart, sexy in style, and doesn't shy away from showing sex the way it really is. I've heard of this movie years before, but I never got around... read more »
  
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  - GLASGOW
  - 06 May 2005 at 23:22
- - 10
  - 2
  Parental warning - ...
  
  Parental warning - this movie contains explicit lesbian sex scenes and plenty of gratuitous violence. It's also a brilliant cliff-hanger of a thriller! What... read more »
  
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- 26446
- - peeebeee#1
  - LEEDS
  - 31 Dec 2003 at 09:26
- - 7
  - 0
  Gripping, sexual and tense.
  
  An excellent movie, where two women cleverly outdo the mafia with great cunning.
  
  A good casting with all characters, laden with sexuality at the ... read more »
  
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- 157925
- - DigitalDamo78
  - 1 review
  - South Scotland
  - 06 Oct 2005 at 22:31
- - 6
  - 2
  Rubbish
  
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  What a load of rubbish
  
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  - Dagenham
  - 01 Mar 2008 at 20:44
- - 5
  - 2
  A good rip off the mob...
  
  A good rip off the mob movie. Not overly predicable, and with a decent enough story. Although erotic, it doesn't make vulgar use of this, or linger on the ... read more »
  
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- 36972
- - Marcus#19
  - LONDON
  - 26 May 2004 at 17:09
- - 4
  - 0
  Taut plotting, plenty of suspense
  
  Well now. Gangsters, money and lesbians. Filmed back when the Wachowski Brothers knew how to make good movies, Bound tells the story of two women who conspire ... read more »
  
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- 22830
- - Alex Morris
  - UK
  - 24 Oct 2004 at 17:09
- - 4
  - 2
  Tense thriller with good plot
  
  This film was pretty good, despite the lesbian aspect. The Wachowski brothers made this before making the Matrix, and so it features some good camera angles and... read more »
  
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- - David King
  - London
  - 21 Feb 2005 at 01:14
- - 3
  - 0
  I thought this was ...
  
  I thought this was going to be a typical girl on girl film a couple of raunchy scenes with no story line. How wrong I was! It was a really good thriller with a ... read more »
  
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- 26823
- - BlueGirlFriday
  - 19 reviews
  - East Yorkshire
  - 15 Jan 2004 at 11:21
- - 5
  - 4
  Worth a rent
  
  Upon realising that "The Matrix" trilogy is terrible, and the directing/story is awful, I needed more, solid proof that the Wachowski's are really... read more »
  
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- 294810
- - Philmster
  - Middlesex
  - 09 Nov 2003 at 14:54

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Critics' reviews
- Chicago: when hood's moll Violet (Tilly) and ex-con Corky (Gershon) size each other up across a corridor, things soon... read more on Time Out
- 43210
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:13
- "...Clever, eye-catching, highly stylized, faux-chic..." -- Rating: B+
- 7503
- - Entertainment Weekly
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58

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  Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly nearly set the screen on fire in this clever, female-powered twist on the standard Mob caper film. Gershon is Corky, an ex-con renovating the apartment next door to where Tilly's Violet lives. Violet is the moll of psychotic gangster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), who uses ...