Film Review: Tied to a Chair
Tied to a Chair is one of those films that makes me sit back and wonder whether it might have been better served if the writer/director had given one of his roles to someone else. A low budget film that reveals its inadequacies in its editing and mish mash of a storyline. The film has essentially three plots revolving around one character who is essentially the amalgam of three. The Naomi we meet from the outset is a ditzy British wife who can't cook nor do anything right. When her husband asks her what she wants to do with her life, she reveals that she threw her dreams out the window when she married him. She wanted to be an actress. So she ups and leaves her staid life in Britain and heads off to Cannes, and this is where plot two begins. She no longer has the British accent and instead she's an American, desperately seeking the role of a lifetime. Her quest eventually leads her to New York, her hometown, where she gets embroiled in some criminal a...