The Tie That Binds

The Tie That Binds

Janie's been adopted by the perfect couple. With their help she can find a new life. If her real parents don't find her first.

Directed by Wesley Strick

Produced by Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

199599 min4.9 / 10

A tense home-invasion thriller built on the paranoia of adoptive parents protecting a child from her murderous biological parents.

A young couple adopts a traumatized child, unaware that her parents are fugitives and murderers who will do anything to get her back.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Tie That Binds scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 94% of films.

  • Is The Tie That Binds violent? Yes. More violent than 88% of films.

  • Is The Tie That Binds sad? Yes. More sad than 75% of films.

  • Is The Tie That Binds easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Does The Tie That Binds end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 70% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

5/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity8

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love4

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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