Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) on Netflix
NC-1719891h 41mComedyCrimeDrama
Ricky leaves a psychiatric hospital wanting Marina Osorio, an actress he once slept with. He follows her home, forces his way in and ties her up, saying he wants to marry her.
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Plot summary
Ricky, 23, is deemed cured and released from a psychiatric hospital, where he had been the lover of its director. An orphan, free and alone, he wants a normal life with Marina Osorio, an actress and recovering addict he once slept with during an escape from the asylum. Marina is shooting The Midnight Phantom, a horror film, for Máximo Espejo, an old director left in a wheelchair by a stroke. Ricky comes to the set and steals things, among them the keys to her apartment. Marina fails to remember him and dismisses him. After the last scene he follows her home, forces his way in, gags her and ties her up. He says he captured her so that she would get to know him, fall in love, and marry him.
Cast
- Montse G. Romeuas Montse
- Oswaldo Delgadoas Fantasma
- Concha Rabalas Farmacéutica
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
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- The MPAA gave Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! an X rating, by then heavily associated with pornography, which cut into its distribution; Miramax, its North American distributor, filed a lawsuit against the MPAA over the rating.
- Miramax lost its court case and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! was released unrated; in September 1990 the MPAA dropped the X rating and replaced it with NC-17, first used by Henry & June.
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! ended Almodóvar's partnership with his longtime star Carmen Maura in a rift that took years to heal; at 44, Maura was too old for the lead, which went to Victoria Abril, whom he had earlier considered for roles in What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988).
- Almodóvar found Ennio Morricone's score for Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! conventional and uninspiring, too close to Morricone's music for Frantic, and used only half of it.
- Antonio Banderas's role in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, his fifth and most important film with Almodóvar, launched his career in American films.
