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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is a espagnol film of genre Drama directed by Pedro Almodóvar released in USA on 4 may 1990 with Victoria Abril
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
¡Átame!
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 may 1990
Length 1h51
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
OriginEspagne
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Rating69%
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spanish: ¡Átame!, [ˈa.ta.me], "Tie Me!") is a 1990 Spanish dark romantic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril. The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him. He believes his destiny is to marry her and father her children.
The film was highly successful with both critics and audiences in Spain. Its release in the United States was entangled in controversy, instrumental in the implementation by the MPAA of a new rating category, NC-17, for films of an explicit nature that were previously unfairly regarded as pornographic because of the X rating.
Synopsis
Ricky, a 23-year-old psychiatric patient, has been deemed cured and is released from a mental institution. Until then he has been the lover of the woman director of the hospital. An orphan, free, and alone, his goal is to have a normal life with Marina Ozores, an actress, former porn star, and recovering drug addict, whom he once slept with during an escape from the asylum.Actors
Victoria Abril
(Marina Osorio)
Antonio Banderas
(Ricky)
Francisco Rabal
(Máximo Espejo)
Loles León
(Lola)
Rossy de Palma
(Camello en Vespa)
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