Bound

Fresh out of prison and wanting to lay low, Corky (Gina Gershon), takes a job fixing up an old apartment only to be seduced by Violet (Jennifer Tilly), the high-femme girl next door. As their secret affair heats up, they devise a plan to steal $2 million from Violet’s mobster boyfriend. In the Wachowskis’ feature-film directorial debut, they subvert traditional gender roles and genre convention, allowing Corky and Violet to be deeply human as they navigate the boxes society creates for them and take down the oppressive men in their lives. After the Wachowskis refused studio suggestions of changing Corky to a man, they secured financing from Dino De Laurentiis, who supported their original vision and added feminist writer Susie Bright as a lesbian sex... consultant to create what has now become a cult classic in queer cinema.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

1996 | 105 min. | USA | Color | English | Rated R | DCP

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: The Wachowskis

WITH: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Ryan