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Release Date: 16 January, 2001 Retail Price: $29.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
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This film deserves a lot more credit than it gets. It is fun, funny, and extremely sexy. If you have half a brain in your head and a warm body to watch this with (of the opposite sex) you will have a great time with this film.
Perceptively witty / sexy comedy. Banderas as psycho!
`Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down' directed by the Spaniard, Pedro Almodovar and starring Victoria Abril and a young Antonio Banderas strikes me as great fun with at least a few sparkling moments of insight or perception worthy of Woody Allen.
The dominant aspect of this 1989 movie for us today is the Banderas performance that I kept comparing to the performances of Mel Gibson and Brad Pitt as psychopaths in `Conspiracy Theory' and `The 12 Monkeys' respectively. Banderas plays a newly released inmate from an insane asylum who, on the face of it, immediately takes up his asocial behavior by stalking a porno movie / Wes Craven type movie star who is just finishing up her work on a `movie within a movie'. While Gibson and Pitt really pushed their characterizations over the top, to the point where Pitt was nominated for an Academy award for his role, Banderas keeps his nuttiness toned down to be almost imperceptible. This is good, because it makes his motive for stalking the actress more believable. He is claiming that an earlier meeting he had with the actress turned him around and led him to convincing his parole board to free him from the asylum.
The major perception used in the plot is based on the fact that the female lead has a bad toothache, but since she was once a heavy user of opiates, most painkillers no longer work for her, so she needs either the very strongest prescription drugs or illegal morphine or heroin.
This is rated NC-17, but as a rather farcical satire, the few scenes or explicit sex and nudity are more funny than they are titillating. That still doesn't mean I would let a 12-year-old watch the movie, but I would get it for a great `stay at home' date movie.
I suspect there is enough substance in this film to warrant two or three viewings and I would especially recommend it as one of the great sexy comedies, at least until I see and review more of Almodovar's films.
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