# Bondage - Romantic Comedy - Movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 28, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bondage-romantic-comedy-movie/397782 "2007-03-28T02:44:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bondage-romantic-comedy-movie/397782/21 "2007-03-29T06:00:31Z")

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[QUOTE=Raguleader]  
Well, we know it’s not the answer now, but wouldn’t Exit to Eden count as a mainstream bondage romantic comedy?

_thinks_

Wait, was there any bondage, or was it just a mainstream S&M romantic comedy?  
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As has been pointed out already, it was neither funny nor romantic, and what’s more there wasn’t a lot of bondage in it. I wrote a review of Exit to Eden, it’s definitely NSFW, but here’s the link ready for cutting and pasting:

[http://www.bondagerotica.com/articles/exittoeden/exit\_to\_eden.html](http://www.bondagerotica.com/articles/exittoeden/exit_to_eden.html)

So, not funny, not romantic, not bondage-y, I’m not sure exactly what “Exit to Eden” was. Probably belongs in the “Pathetic failure” genre.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bondage-romantic-comedy-movie/397782/22 "2007-03-29T06:11:25Z")

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An alternative mainstream bondage romantic comedy is [The Linguini Incident](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102313/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxxPVRoZSBMaW5ndWluaSBJbmNpZGVudHxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8c2M9MXxodG1sPTE_;fc=1;ft=20). Rosanna Arquette plays a waitress who wants to be an escape artist. She is not particularly good at escaping. Spends an awful lot of time tied up, cuffed, confined in a duffel bag, etc., trying to escape. The movie never acknowledge the bondage subtext, but it’s there. I mean, she spends a night in bed cuffed to David Bowie when their characters first meet. True, they spend the night really, actually sleeping, but I’d call that an indicator.

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**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bondage-romantic-comedy-movie/397782/23 "2007-03-29T14:02:46Z")

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Or “Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down”. Some romance and bondage there.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bondage-romantic-comedy-movie/397782/24 "2007-03-29T14:48:50Z")

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There’s also the long interlude in _9 to 5_ where Jane Fonda hangs Dabney Coleman from the ceiling.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bondage-romantic-comedy-movie/397782/25 "2007-03-29T16:03:50Z")

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I consider ribcages and scarification among the unsexiest things in the world but damn if naked Maggie G didn’t make them work!

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