
Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince her to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up. Will this approach endear him to her?... (Full plot summary below)
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Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince her to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up. Will this approach endear him to her?
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| Washington PostRita KempleyX marks the G-spot perhaps, for this is an orgiastic comedy of terrors and errors. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerWhat keeps Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! from being irredeemably offensive are Almodóvar’s efforts, however vague and tentative, to undermine his own thesis. |
| EmpireDamon WiseAlmodovar consolidated his status as a challenging and bold filmmaker by forcing Americans to drop their zany preconceptions of him and see his world through his eyes. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanTie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is seamlessly crafted yet too self-conscious to be much fun. |
| The DissolveKeith PhippsAbril and Banderas are both terrific as the lovers-to-be... Almodóvar makes it easy to root for them to get together and balance each other out, but that means getting past the situation that brought them together in the first place, and the tension makes the movie queasy even when it’s compelling. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyMr. Almodovar's comic invention runs out too soon, leaving the audience to giggle weakly in anticipation of the big laughs and disorienting shocks that never arrive. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is too flighty and uncentered, and it allows actual violence to break the spell when false alarms would have sufficed. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottAn offensive premise and a pathetic, almost pleading desire to outrage our sensibilities with it. |
| User ReviewDeanomiteThe Skin I Live In was so good, have been going through Pedro Almodovar movies. This has music by Ennio Morricone (it's excellent), better photography and sound than earlier Almodovar movies, better production values all around than Matador and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Seems to feed into the idea that captives enjoy captivity, an idea that played better 30 years ago. |
| User ReviewNickTheCritickA beautiful erotic movie by Almodovar. This film may seem the least Almodovarian of all because here the director steps out of the comfort zone and tries to devote himself to a genre that can be defined as a bitter comedy. The encounter between a woman who does not believe in love and a man who feels the need to impose it. Great acting here by all the cast. |