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In the Soup Actors: Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel Director: Alexandre Rockwell Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Format: Black & White, Widescreen Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: 93 minutes Studio: Fantoma Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-07-27 Buy from Amazon |
 "Best Soup Ever!"I saw this movie when it came out in theatres when I was ten years old. Even at that age I really enjoyed it but not as much as I appreciate it now. I actually got to meet Seymour Cassel the second time I saw it. He was really great to take his time and talk to the crowd at the theatre. This was a really smart film. A movie about making a movie. I really hope this comes out on DVD. Some other great Seymour Cassel movies are Rushmore and the new release in theatres The Royal Tenenbaums. "Best Soup Ever!"I saw this movie when it came out in theatres when I was ten years old. Even at that age I really enjoyed it but not as much as I appreciate it now. I actually got to meet Seymore Cassel the second time I saw it. He was really great to take his time and talk to the crowd at the theatre. This was a really smart film. A movie about making a movie. I really hope this comes out on DVD. Some other great Seymore Cassel movies are Rushmore and the new release in theatres The Royal Tenenbaums.  "Great wacky comedy"With a stellar cast including indie film fave (sorry for the chintzy language!) Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassell, Stanley Tucci, Will Patton, Carol Kane, and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Alexandre Rockwell's In the Soup takes the tried and true tale of a guy wanting to make a film and manages to make this story decidedly fresh and original. Seymour Cassell's Joe is a consummate con man who knows exactly how to squeeze, steal, and/or cajole money out of a whole plethora of situations. Joe the slickster with a sexy Asian girlfriend is a perfect match for Steve Buscemi's close-to-broke Adolfo the intellectual bumbler (who dreams of his neighbor Jennifer Beals' Latina Angela), whose 450 page film script--Unconditional Surrender--sends Joe into a rapture of delight at the prospect of financing a real film. Of course the way Joe raises the dough to make the film is not exactly, shall we say, kosher. The juxtaposition of naivete, dream, imagination, and petty crime, along with Will Patton's menacing hemophiliac brother and Stanley Tucci's French ex-husband should be seen to be believed. This is one film that truly deserves to be on DVD. As of this writing (August 2003), it ain't. A shame. A great picker-uppper, a lot of fun, and an all around hoot. Put In the Soup on your shelf. You won't be sorry. "Not only is this funny, but AWESOME!"Steve Buscemi plays an absolute great performance! I viewed this show on the big screen in film school and Jenny Beals and Mr. Cassel came to chat with our class. For a budget of under $1 million it was just AWESOME! I hope grandma got her money back and the people in the show made a pretty penny because they deserved it. It only played at a couple theaters in Los Angeles and New York because of the limitation for marketing. Regardless, this show is a MUST SEE! "Great Spirit!!"I accidentally ran into this movie on Bravo. It greatly potrays the innocence and struggle of a young artist, Adolfo Rollo, who wanted to create something unique-in the realms of Goddard etc. In contrast we find Joe, an old man of experience with a no-nonsense attitude towards life. Joe jumps into Adolfo's movie project- pretending to be interested in producing it- to exploit the young man's desires and half baked plans to his own benefit. This is one of those rare jewels one finds by accident: the original and evocative music sound track by Madden, the original development of the drama, and the obsessions and misinterpretations of innocence add up to movie which is full of spirit and heart. |
