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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131126792
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 16, 2001
Running Time: 101 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
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Editorial Review:
Perhaps only Pedro Almodóvar could come up with a story about a mental patient who stalks and kidnaps an ex-porn star--and turn it into a tender love story. But that's exactly what happens in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, a lively installment from the Spanish director's wacky middle period (after the scruffy early films, and before his mature melodramas). Two of Almodóvar's sexiest stars, Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril, play the leads: a cracked young man with dreams of bourgeois domesticity, and an actress who used to specialize in porno and heroin. Despite that fact that he binds her limbs with cord when he leaves the house, he always returns with a cheerful "I'm home!" For all Almodóvar's outrageousness, there's a touch of classical Hollywood in his construction. And while this movie is not for the politically correct, it does play by its own warped rules. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Misogynistic Garbage
Someone should have informed the makers of this movie that women do NOT enjoy being beaten unconscious, held prisoner, victimized. This movie is an insult to humanity. The ridiculous plot glorifies this disgusting behavior and it is sickening. Lame attempts at humor fail, rampant drug use is also portrayed and glorified in this film. Is the audience to actually believe the woman would fall in love with her attacker and live happily ever after? The only thing they got right was rating it NC-17. NO ... Read More
Rating:  - bizarre comedy that recommends an unorthodox way to fall in love
This is the story of a mental patient who happens to be a hunk (a very young Banderas), who attempts to use an original method to get a b-film star to fall for him: abducting and then tieing her up. It isn't all that funny if you ask me, but it is well acted and interesting in spots. Really a strange drama. Almodar's later dramas are infinitely superior.
Rating:  - Absolute gem!
This is an amzing movie, one of the best Almodovar's ever! And it is also worth seeing an Antonio Banderas from his 'pre-Hollywood' age, much, much better than now!
Rating: - Unsophisticated-- primitive desperation as romance for clods
I found nothing whatsoever sympathetic about Ricky. His pathetic view of romance is the same as the highschool kids that jump off a cliff together. Her view of the romance was pity for that pathetic. Disturbed individuals will see this validating their own twisted view of romance, not a behaviour to encourage. The story is essentially "The Collector" (1965) with a "they all live happily ever after" ending. Modern cave-man still drags his mate off by the hair, and you all go "oh, isn't that romantic." ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
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