In The Soup ( Trailer)
In the Soup Director: Alexandre Rockwell Screenwriters: Tim Kissel, Aexandre Rockwell Institute History 1993 Sundance Film Festival in Tokyo 1992 Sundance Film Festival Description Two veteran actors in American independent filmone from the Cassavetes era (Seymour Cassel), and one from the Jarmusch generation (Steve Buscemi)come together with zesty abandon in this loopy comic noir. Impoverished wouldbe film director Adolpho Rollo (Buscemi), surviving on a diet of Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and the vitamins his mother keeps sending to his Lower East Side apartment, is down to his last dime. With his criminal landlords pounding on the door (Steve Randazzo and Frank in memorable bits as the Bafardi brothers), he desperately places an ad offering his epic fivehundredpage screenplay to the highest bidder. The taker is Joe (Cassel), a smalltime hood looking for the perfect dupe to use in his petty scams. Joe convinces Adolpho that he ll finance his film, but in the meantime there a
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