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Released
1996 · FILM

Bound

A tough ex-con and a seductive mob girlfriend plot to steal millions from her dangerous boyfriend, setting off a deadly game of betrayal and revenge.

“For money. For murder. For each other.”

Directed by
Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Written by
Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Rated
MPA · R
Format
Shot on 35mm film
Runtime
109 min
CrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Corky is a tough, formerly incarcerated woman working on renovating an apartment in a Chicago building. She meets the couple living next door: Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately drawn to Corky.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 108+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Zach StaenbergShot by Bill PopeScored by Don DavisDesigned by Eve Cauley

Box Office

1996 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$7.0M

Budget$4.5M
Worldwide gross$7.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $3.8M — 54% of worldwide · International: $3.2M (46%)

Opening weekend: $901K — 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $1.3M — 34% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 261 theaters

Also known as

  • Bound - Gefesseltde
  • Bound - Torbido ingannoit

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