Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (ATAME!)

Buy This Item Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (ATAME!) by Sony Pictures  Available from Amazon  $14.95  on 11-25-2008     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 <I>Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!</I>, 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. <I>--Robert Horton</I> Reader Reviews 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? What a complete distortion of reality. The only thing they got right was rating it NC-17. NO minor should see this movie. I actually tossed it into the garbage after I saw it.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (ATAME!) Available from Amazon Price: $14.95 Updated on 11-25-2008.

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