Bound
The Wachowskis’ debut: a lesbian heist thriller with actual heat.
A genre film that let two women want each other and win.
- 1996
- 105 min
- 88% on Rotten Tomatoes
- 7.3 on IMDb
- #nostalgic
- #drama
Our take
An ex-con and a mobster’s girlfriend meet, want each other immediately, and decide to steal two million dollars. It is a tight, stylish neo-noir that happens to be built entirely around a queer relationship, at a time when the genre reliably killed one of them off by the third act.
The Wachowskis brought in Susie Bright to make sure the sex scenes were written by someone who knew what she was doing, and the difference is obvious. Both women survive, both women get the money, and the film never treats either as a lesson.
Where to watch Bound
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Scores
Ours
- Jibbi Score — 4 out of 5 rainbows. A genre film that let two women want each other and win.
Everyone else’s
- Rotten Tomatoes — 88%, via OMDb.
- IMDb — 7.3 out of 10 from 65,793 votes, via OMDb.
- Metacritic — 64 out of 100, via OMDb.
- TMDB — 7.2 out of 10 from 1,114 votes, refreshed daily.
The plot, officially
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.