Jill Rips

Jill Rips

DVD cover
Directed by Anthony Hickox
Produced by Damian Lee
Written by Gareth Wardell
Kevin Bernhardt
Starring Dolph Lundgren
Kristi Angus
Music by Thomas Barquee
Steve Gurevitch
Cinematography David Pelletier
Edited by Brett Hedlund
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release dates
2000
Running time
94 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Jill Rips is a 2000 film directed by Anthony Hickox starring Dolph Lundgren, based on a 1987 novel by Scottish writer Frederic Lindsay. The film is also known as Jill the Ripper and Tied Up.[1]

Plot

Matt Sorenson (Dolph Lundgren), a former boxer and San Francisco cop, now makes a living collecting debts for small businesses. The brutal death of his high-powered younger brother, Michael, changes all that forever. Intent on finding his brother's killer, Sorenson infiltrates the powerful inner world of politics, business intrigue, and casual sex. Rejecting the police and media theory that the murder is the work of a female prostitute, Sorensen's focus falls on the corrupt big city businessman, Jim Conway. His obsession to discover the killer's identity mounts as other men are found murdered in a similar fashion. Sorenson loses all objectivity and becomes a vigilante.

Cast

Novel reviews

The novel had been described by the Today programme as 'harrowing, but [its] grim, poetic vision makes it the best novel of its kind for years'. The Sunday Times said that 'violent and vicious, Lindsay's unsparing tale beds down with the imagination like a succubus'. Daily Express called it 'tautly and skillfully written—a genuine, can't-put-it-down, turn-off-the-telly-read'.

DVD release

After a TV premiere on HBO under the re-title "Tied Up" in January 2000, the movie was released on DVD on July 4, 2000 by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment a "Jill The Ripper (while keeping its original title "Jill Rips" in other countries).[2]

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