Don't be turned off by the "quirky indie comedy" tag! This is a wonderful movie with a brilliant performance by Seymour Cassel.

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It's nice here, huh Aldolpho? I love to watch the sunrise by the beach.

Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Beals at an event for In the Soup (1992)

Seymour Cassel and Sam Rockwell at an event for In the Soup (1992)

Steve Buscemi and Seymour Cassel in In the Soup (1992)

Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Beals, and Seymour Cassel in In the Soup (1992)

Steve Buscemi

Seymour Cassel

Jennifer Beals

Sollace Mitchell

Alexandre Rockwell

New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he&apos;s creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can&apos;t pay the rent on the downtown flophouse he calls home.

In the Soup

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&quot;In the Soup&quot; is a nice little gem of a movie. If you liked Steve Buscemi in &quot;Ghost World&quot; you should like him here because he is basically playing the same perpetually dour and befuddled character. And if you liked &quot;Ghost World&quot; in general you should like &quot;In the Soup&quot; because they have a similar theme and storyline. They both focus on a character being taught how to live by the example of another character. &quot;In the Soup&quot; does not have &quot;Ghost Story&apos;s&quot; ironic twist (where the teacher is the one who actually learns how to live). It is more straightforward and not as clever but is still light years more intelligent than most mainstream films.

Buscemi&apos;s character needs a producer for his 500-page screenplay with quirky features like beginning with a 20 minute black leader (just a blank screen) to introduce his lead character&apos;s blindness. He intends to cast his neighbor (and unrequited love interest) Jennifer Beals who barely acknowledges his existence although he sleeps with her shoe under his pillow. Buscemi gets &quot;in the soup&quot; when he hooks up with a gangster who wants to produce the film. Seymour Cassell plays the gangster with an infectious gusto that deservedly won Sundance Festival&apos;s Best Actor Award. All three performances are excellent, as is a brief appearance by Carol Kane as the co-producer of an access TV show featuring nude interviews (The Naked Truth).

If all this sounds to you like it could be fun you are this film&apos;s target audience.

Shooting in black-and-white on a tight budget Director Alexandre Rockwell has put together a funny feature with a lot of charm. The production values are first-class. More importantly he has told a worthwhile story and communicated useful lessons to apply to the process of living.

New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he&apos;s creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can&apos;t pay the rent on the downtown grothole he calls home.

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"In the Soup" is a nice little gem of a movie. If you liked Steve Buscemi in "Ghost World" you should like him here because he is basically playing the same perpetually dour and befuddled character. And if you liked "Ghost World" in general you should like "In the Soup" because they have a similar theme and storyline. They both focus on a character being taught how to live by the example of another character. "In the Soup" does not have "Ghost Story's" ironic twist (where the teacher is the one who actually learns how to live). It is more straightforward and not as clever but is still light years more intelligent than most mainstream films.

Buscemi's character needs a producer for his 500-page screenplay with quirky features like beginning with a 20 minute black leader (just a blank screen) to introduce his lead character's blindness. He intends to cast his neighbor (and unrequited love interest) Jennifer Beals who barely acknowledges his existence although he sleeps with her shoe under his pillow. Buscemi gets "in the soup" when he hooks up with a gangster who wants to produce the film. Seymour Cassell plays the gangster with an infectious gusto that deservedly won Sundance Festival's Best Actor Award. All three performances are excellent, as is a brief appearance by Carol Kane as the co-producer of an access TV show featuring nude interviews (The Naked Truth).

If all this sounds to you like it could be fun you are this film's target audience.

Shooting in black-and-white on a tight budget Director Alexandre Rockwell has put together a funny feature with a lot of charm. The production values are first-class. More importantly he has told a worthwhile story and communicated useful lessons to apply to the process of living.

New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown flophouse he calls home.

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