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Bound

Name: Bound
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: 1996
Duration: 105 min

1996Thriller · Crime105 min

4/5

A genre film that let two women want each other and win.

The Wachowskis’ debut: a lesbian heist thriller with actual heat.

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.

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Jibbi Score — 4 out of 5 rainbows. A genre film that let two women want each other and win.

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Rotten Tomatoes — 87%, as recorded on Wikidata — Rotten Tomatoes has no public API, so this is the openly licensed figure rather than a live reading.
TMDB — 7.2 out of 10 from 1,152 votes, refreshed daily.

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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.