Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Spanish theatrical release poster
Spanish	¡Átame!
Directed by	Pedro Almodóvar
Written by	Pedro Almodóvar Yuyi Beringola
Produced by	Agustín Almodóvar Enrique Posner
Starring	Victoria Abril Antonio Banderas Loles Léon Francisco Rabal Julieta Serrano María Barranco Rossy de Palma
Cinematography	José Luis Alcaine
Edited by	José Salcedo
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Production company	El Deseo S.A.
Distributed by	Lauren Films
Release dates	12 December 1989 (1989-12-12) (Madrid premiere) 26 January 1990 (1990-01-26) (Spain)
Running time	101 minutes[1]
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish
Box office	$8 million

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spanish: ¡Átame!, pronounced [ˈa.ta.me], "Tie Me!") is a 1989 Spanish dark romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Victoria Abril and Antonio Banderas alongside Loles Léon, Francisco Rabal, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, and Rossy de Palma. 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.^[2] Its United States release 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 categorized as pornographic due to the X rating.^[3]