In the Soup **** (1992, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Beals, Seymour Cassel, Will Patton, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 5788

Co-writer/ director Alexandre Rockwell’s stylish, clever and appealingly idiosyncratic 1992 low-budget film is beautifully shot by Phil Parmet in black and white, with a funny script by Rockwell and Tim Kissell, and superb comic performances, particularly from Seymour Cassel and Steve Buscemi.

Steve Buscemi plays a young, no-hope movie-maker who cannot get his 500-page script (called Unconditional Surrender) to the film stage – until he meets a small-time gangster (Seymour Cassel) who is willing to put money into his film for just a little investment.

Also in the cast are Jennifer Beals, Will Patton, Stanley Tucci, Pat Moya and Sully Boyar, and there are also amusing cameos from Carol Kane and Jim Jarmusch.

It was the year of Hollywood satires, released in the same year as Robert Altman’s The Player (1992) and Mistress (1992)

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