Blu-ray Release: Bound

Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 28, 2018
Price: Blu-ray $29.33
Studio: Olive Films


The sexy 1996 thriller Bound was the feature film debut of the writing-directing duo The Wachowskis (who were brothers back then and have since transitioned to the female gender).

Bound stars Gina Gershon (Showgirls) as Corky, a tough-as-nails ex-con, and Jennifer Tilly (30 Beats) as her lover Violet. A chance encounter in an elevator ignites a torrid affair between the two women, who soon plot to steal $2 million in laundered mob money and pin the blame on Violet’s mafioso boyfriend, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano, TV’s The Sopranos).

A stylish neo-noir, fusing classic tropes with hyper-stylized camera work and color design, Bound is a crackling retro-crime thriller that never strays too far from its noir roots. It was to be the first of a line of visually dazzling films from The Wachowskis, the writing and directing team behind the Matrix trilogy and, more recently, Jupiter Ascending.

Olive Films new Blu-ray edition, an “Olive Signature” title, contains the following:

  • New High-Definition digital restoration
  • Theatrical and Unrated versions
  • Audio commentary with writers/directors The Wachowskis; actors Joe Pantoliano, Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon; film editor Zach Staenberg; and technical consultant Susie Bright
  • “Part and Parcel” – with titles designer Patti Podesta
  • “The Difference Between You and Me” – with film studies and gender studies professors B. Ruby Rich and Jen Moorman
  • “Here’s Johnny!” – with Christopher Meloni
  • “Hail Ceasar” – with Joe Pantoliano
  • “Femme Fatales” – with Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly
  • “Modern Noir: The Sights & Sounds of Bound” – with cinematographer Bill Pope, editor Zach Staenberg, and composer Don Davis
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Essay by screenwriter/actress Guinevere Turner (American PsychoGo Fish)
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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.