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In The Soup on DVD (1992)

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Average rating: 59%
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Starring: Seymour Cassel, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Beals, Will Patton, Stanley Tucci
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Studio: SECOND SIGHT FILMS LTD.
Run time: 92 mins
Certificate: 15
User collections: "This One's my ALL TIME FAVOURITE!!!!!"
Genres: Comedy
Languages: English
Released: 20/09/2004

Brief synopsis of In The Soup

Aldolpho Rollo, a struggling screenwriter-filmmaker longing for international success, lives in a run-down building where he can barely make his rent. When his landlords menace him with foreboding promises to do him bodily harm, they frighten the jejune artist into taking charge of his financial situation. With no monetary recourse, Aldolpho has to stop nursing his 500-page screenplay and actually try selling it. Much to his surprise, Joe, a seemingly wealthy eccentric older gentleman, offers Aldolpho $1,000 cash for the work. Joe quickly becomes Aldolpho's benevolent guardian, instilling him with confidence, helping him woo dreamgirl Angelica, and nurturing his artistic goals. But the would-be artist and his benefactor soon clash over the content of the film, and it takes a tragedy before Aldolpho can begin to understand Joe's point-of-view and create the work he's dreamed of.

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Critics Reviews

Rating of 2 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Director Henry Edwards does little to disguise the theatrical origins of this comic warhorse, which shows just how reliant Ralph Lynn was on his fellow Aldwych farceurs. Without Tom Walls's wiles and Robertson Hare's pomposity, Lynn's silly-ass antics have a third-rate Bertie Wooster feel as he and Judy Gunn pose as servants in order to prevent his old colonial uncle discovering their marriage and disinheriting them. That said, Ralph Lumley's play throws up a couple of amusing set pieces. In one, barrister Lynn wrings courtroom chaos from the simplest of cases; in another, he humiliates his uncle's dinner guests by lacing the soup.

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New Yorker Adolpho Rollo (Buscemi) is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind he's creating deathless classics of... Read more on www.timeout.com

Rating of 2 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

An amusing off-beat comedy about the education of an innocent.

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Rated - 4 starswell worth your time

S Bates from UK , 30/08/2005

The ending lets it down a little but this is a sweet, quirky and enjoyable film, very well acted by all involved, especially Buscemi in a unusually quiet, straight man role.

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Rated - 3 starsInteresting Indie

iggsta from England , 05/12/2004

A film from a peak American indie year, 'In The Soup' tells the somewhat autobiographical tale of a wannabe director (Buscemi), who sees his name in lights despite his poverty and hopelessly overwritten screenplay. His world is soon eaten up by a would be producer, whos all consuming personality soon engulfs his life.

Interestng yet sometimes hard to like film, which is laden with excentricity yet sometimes lacking in heart. Worth a watch, but not really anything to savour.

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Rated - 1 starsSteve, what were you thinking of?

A customer from The Pretentious West End of Glasgow , 17/05/2005

Utterly dreadful piece of black n white piffle.I can't think of one good thing to say about it.Avoid at all costs.You won't believe how slow the time passes while you watch this nonsense.I usually like Steve,but this was substandard drivel. Sundance my arse.More like bleedin' Flashdance.

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Rated - 4 starsSteve Buscemi Great!

A customer from WALES , 01/11/2004

The man is on good form in this film.

Filmed in black and white.

Worth watching

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Rated - 3 starsInteresting Indie

iggsta from England , 05/12/2004

A film from a peak American indie year, 'In The Soup' tells the somewhat autobiographical tale of a wannabe director (Buscemi), who sees his name in lights despite his poverty and hopelessly overwritten screenplay. His world is soon eaten up by a would be producer, whos all consuming personality soon engulfs his life.

Interestng yet sometimes hard to like film, which is laden with excentricity yet sometimes lacking in heart. Worth a watch, but not really anything to savour.

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Rated - 4 starsSteve Buscemi Great!

A customer from WALES , 01/11/2004

The man is on good form in this film.

Filmed in black and white.

Worth watching

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