Capturing industry attention with a stylish writing/directing debut, the Wachowskis and cinematographer Bill Pope uncorked a camera bag full of tricks for their lesbian-lovers-against-the-mob tale. Ex-con/plumber Gina Gershon and moll Jennifer Tilly fall hard for each other and try to break free of the latter’s keeper Joe Pantoliano, conceiving a big rip-off and frame-up that must crucially convince Chicago crime capo John P. Ryan.