Synopsis
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
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Cast
- Jennifer TillyViolet
- Gina GershonCorky
- Joe PantolianoCaesar
- John P. RyanMickey Malnato
- Christopher MeloniJohnnie Marzzone
- Richard C. SarafianGino Marzzone
- Barry KivelShelly
- Mary MaraBartender
- Susie BrightJesse
- Margaret SmithWoman Cop
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
It's pure cinema, spread over several genres. It's a caper movie, a gangster movie, a sex movie and a slapstick comedy. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a complex, satisfying piece of entertainment, a succession of unexpected, outrageous scenes. - 90
Dallas Observer
The writing-directing team of brothers Larry and Andi Wachowski has chosen as its filmmaking debut a tightly constructed, stylishly (but rarely self-consciously) executed, gripping little noir parable that couldn't be more firmly grounded in American movie tradition if the filmmakers created a wacky romantic farce about mismatched paramours. - 88
ReelViews
From the first scene, however, it's obvious that the writing/directing team of Andy and Larry Wachowski are aiming for something considerably higher than rudimentary titillation. And, by taking chances and twisting conventions, they have hit paydirt. - 80
Empire
Lovingly designed in black and white, and played with a nice sense of irony, this offers the not unappealing spectacle of gorgeous, funny, clever women making fools of hard-boiled Mafia guys. - 75
San Francisco Examiner
The Wachowski brothers are to be applauded for a film that is also nearly as stylishly funny as it is sexy and fast-paced. - 70
Chicago Reader
This gets very suspenseful (as well as fairly gruesome) in spots, and if it never adds up to anything profound, it's still a welcome change to have a lesbian couple as the chief identification figures. - 67
Austin Chronicle
What's more, they toss a few original twists into a familiar generic set-up and thereby create a thoroughly entertaining and stylish thriller.
