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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.
1996 · Directed by Lilly Wachowski · 105 min · Drama · Thriller · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 19 frames
Tagline
For money. For murder. For each other.
Plot
Corky, a lesbian ex-convict, is hired as a painter and plumber at a Chicago apartment building. She encounters Violet and Caesar, the couple who live next door to the apartment she is renovating. While Caesar is gone, Violet seduces Corky. They are interrupted by Caesar and Corky returns to work. When she leaves for the day, Violet follows Corky to her truck, and they have sex in Corky's apartment. The next morning, Violet tells Corky that Caesar is a money launderer for the Mafia and that they have been together for five years.
Later, Violet overhears Caesar and his mob associates torturing Shelly, a man who has been embezzling money from the business. Upset, she confides to Corky that she wants to make a new life for herself, but that she needs her help. Knowing that Caesar will bring the more than $2 million that Shelly skimmed back to the apartment, the two women hatch a scheme to steal the money. Johnnie, the son of Mafia boss Gino Marzzone, kills Shelly, angering Caesar, who returns to the apartment with a bag of bloody money. Caesar washes, irons and hangs the money to dry.
Violet explains to Corky that Caesar and Johnnie hate each other, and that Gino and Johnnie will be coming to pick up the money from Caesar. Corky devises a plan: when Caesar has finished counting the money, he will shower to unwind. While he does, Violet will purposely drop a bottle of Glenlivet scotch that Gino prefers and tell Caesar that she is going to buy more. As she leaves the apartment, Corky will enter, steal the money from a briefcase and leave. Violet will then return with the scotch and tell Caesar that she just saw Johnnie leave. Suspicious, Caesar will check the briefcase, find the money gone and assume Johnnie has taken it. Corky and Violet think Caesar will be forced to flee because Gino will assume he has been robbed by Caesar, not Johnnie.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
- Cinematography: Bill Pope
- Edited by: Zach Staenberg
- Music: Don Davis
- Production design: Eve Cauley
- Produced by: Stuart Boros, Andrew Lazar
Cast
- Gina Gershon as Corky
- Jennifer Tilly as Violet
- Joe Pantoliano as Caesar
- John P. Ryan as Mickey Malnato
- Christopher Meloni as Johnnie Marzzone
- Richard C. Sarafian as Gino Marzzone
- Barry Kivel as Shelly
- Mary Mara as Bartender
- Susie Bright as Jesse
- Margaret Smith as Woman Cop
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Italian
- Studios: The De Laurentiis Company, Summit Entertainment, Newmarket Capital Group
- Budget: $4,500,000
- Box office: $7,011,317
- Themes: infidelity, money laundering, plumber, crime boss, heist, lesbian relationship, mafia, love affair, ex-con, neo-noir
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