Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6035 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-08-25
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 104 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Destined for cult status, this provocative thriller offers a grab bag of genres (gangster movie, comedy, sexy romance, crime caper) and tops it all off with steamy passion between lesbian ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) and a not-so-ditzy gun moll named Violet (Jennifer Tilly), who meets Corky and immediately tires of her mobster boyfriend (Joe Pantoliano). Desperate to break away from the Mob's influence and live happily ever after, the daring dames hatch a plot to steal $2 million of Mafia money. Their scheme runs into a series of escalating complications, until their very survival depends on split-second timing and criminal ingenuity. Simultaneously violent, funny and suspenseful, Boundis sure to test your tolerance for bloodshed but the film is crafted with such undeniable skill that several critics(including Roger Ebert) placed it on their top-10 lists for 1996. --Jeff Shannon

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Original Theatrical Trailers
Cast And Crew Biographies
Directors And Actors Commentary
Production Featurette

Synopsis
The Wachowskis' ultra-modern update of classic film noir stars Jennifer Tilly as Violet, the voluptuously alluring and well-pampered mistress of mob man Ceasar (Joe Pantoliano). Violet is the kind of woman who can catch any man's eye, but she's more interested in the tough, sexy, new handywoman next door named Corky (Gina Gershon). The two quickly become lovers, and conspire to steal two million of the Mafia's money. The twists and turns that result when things don't go quite as they planned make for a steamy, thrillingly suspenseful, and impressively executed film filled with sly wit, inspired visuals, and terrific performances.

Customer Reviews

Violet and Corkey and The Perfect Plan
Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon are Violet and Corkey, not necessarily dangerous women - just don't want to be messed around. When Corkey moves in next to Violet, she gets rather excited about her, and falls in love with Corkey - she really wants a way to get away from Caesar; a money-launder who works for the Mafia boss Gino.

Things work out nicely for the pair when Caesar gets some money off a crazy guy messing them around. All they have to do is steal it, and make it look like it wasn't them who did it!

This is an excellent film from the Wachowski brothers (Matrix trilogy) - it's got a lot of class and excellent qualities oh and lovely angles and use of music to bring up the momentum of what they're doing. Jennifer is amazing in this movie and really does the bi-curious bit very well. I like the way they managed to get rather rough Corkey with a dodgy past and clean sexy Violet together, and it worked well for me.

Some people say the sex scene in this was a bit unjustified but I thought it wasn't distasteful - but didn't really add much to the story. At least they didn't use a tackier way to get the point across, and really only adults should be watching a movie like this, as the scene with the cutters is nasty.

Well wroth a watch, the extras are not very good, just the commentaries that are worth talking about, otherwise this isn't an extras fest. The presentation of the movie is excellent and the sound is well balanced, which is great.

Hopefully we'll get a blu-ray of this in Tru-HD, and full AVC with a load of extras.

SOOOOO BAD!!!!
If I could give this 0 stars I would. I seriously can't understand why anyone would give this 5 stars! Ok fine, it's good to see a mainstream lesbian film but the main characters are just plain annoying and the plot is ridiculous. I was cringing the whole way through.

A considerable disappointment
I found this film a major disappointment. The plot seemed hackneyed and the sexual motif contrived and unnecessary. It seems a low budget enterprise and I cannot imagine how anybody could consider this outstanding, for any given year. And why on earth is it being considered an example of film noir? It has nothing representative of that genre either in style, theme or lighting. Film noir was essentially typical of the B-feature gangster movies of the 40's and early 50's and with some notable exceptions has not survived that period. This film is certainly NOT an exception to that rule!