Bound (1997)

Bound could easily be dismissed as just another entry in the litter of stylish, knowing crime flicks spawned by Reservoir Dogs. And yes, there's more than a hint of the Cohens' Blood Simple to it, more than a touch of Scorcese's GoodFellas, and more than a smattering (with its femme fatale leads) of the Linda Fiorentino starrer The Last Seduction. What makes it immediately different, however, is its lesbian angle - the soon-to-be-involved central characters of drifter-with-dodgy-past (Gerson) and fatally attractive mob moll (Tilly) are both girls.

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