In the Soup

Starring:Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals, Pat Moya, Will Patton, Sully Boyar, Steven Randazzo, Francesco Messina, Jim Jarmusch, Carol Kane, Stanley Tucci, Rockets Redglare, Elizabeth Bracco, Debi Mazar, Sam Rockwell, Ruth Maleczech, David Cantler, Tessie Hogan, Jaime SÃ¡nchez, Svetlana Rockwell
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Studio: Fantoma
Product Type: DVD

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This is a low-key gem that is at once about the power of dreams, the power of suggestion, and the tyranny of artistic vision (when there really isn't one to fight for). This disarming comedy by director Alexandre Rockwell was a hit at the Sundance Festival but barely registered commercially. Steve Buscemi stars as a hard-luck case: Adolpho, a wanna-be filmmaker with a phone-book-sized screenplay and no money. He lives in a hellish Lower East Side apartment and has a thing for his standoffish neighbor (Jennifer Beals). When he places a want ad to sell his script, he lands Joe (Seymour Cassell), a would-be investor who, it turns out, is really a con artist. Together, they go looking for money to make the movie. A dizzily funny and understated film in which Cassell gives the performance of his career. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews:

Magical ride.......2006-11-04

Wonderfully amusing fun. Mr. Cassel and Mr Buscemi are at their best. My whole family loved it.

Decent Independent Film.......2005-07-06

The movie takes more than one viewing to really enjoy. Rather good commentary and extra features; 3 commentaries and interviews. I love the group commentary it's insighful and funny.

A Lot of Fun.......2005-05-16

"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.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

back in black & white.......2005-04-19

In The Soup is a fine modern indie-styled film. The story features Steve Buscemi (Aldolpho) as the bedraggled screen-writer, or screen-writer hopeful, who is infatuated with his neighbor, but at the same time willing to do almost anything to get his script published or rent paid. In fact, I believe it is whatever comes first.

This is Aldolpho's way till interest peaks in his script from an apparently rich man named Joe. But money sometimes charades with smiles, and Aldolpho is tossed into a more-then Hollywood plot of his own.

I personally find this really quite funny. At times you kind of question what's happening, and really why, but as long as you run with it you should end up really enjoying the film. The characters are interesting, and quite match the relativeness of the sleazy apartment complex, but that adds all to the interest.

My favorite portrayal was that of Seymour Cassel's character as the more then eccentric 'fool' that is Joe. Why at times the craziness of his actions makes you just so curious, while other times he makes the audience purely laugh out loud.

All though you may find the black and white disturbing, this was yet another nice impression to enhance the style of the film; and, as long as you can look past it and the oddity of it all, then please do relish the film.

"Clove Oil? What are you, a salad?".......2004-06-27

The title to this review is one of my favorite movie lines ever, EVER. This movie came out right before Steve Buscemi had a part in literally every movie that came out for 2 straight years. As cool as he is, I must admit I got a little over-Buscemi'd there for a while. This is one of my favorite roles he's done but the main reason I have always remebered this film is Seymour Cassel. His role as the fatherly, mysterious and awesomely spontaneous gansgter is pure freakin' genious. I've yet to see him in a role I didn't like but this has got to be one of his best. Another classic Seymour Cassel line: "20 minutes, what are they gonna do, read it in brail?" You'll just have to see it but trust me, if you even remotely enjoy films by Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch and the like, you will love this film.

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Not a Sellers market
I hate this silly movie!!!!
Charming Rom-Com
memorable interaction
If you can bear the soundtrack, it's a GEM!

There's a Girl in My Soup
Starring: Peter Sellers , Goldie Hawn , Tony Britton , Nicky Henson , and Diana Dors
Director: Roy Boulting
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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The best that can be said for There's a Girl in My Soup is that it is not quite as bad as its reputation. A belly flop in the careers of Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn (she was fresh off her Oscar® for Cactus Flower), this Boulting brothers production did nothing to showcase the sparkling comic talents of those two performers. Sellers has some nice moments early as a famous TV-host twit, whose career as a serial seducer is halted after meeting hippie chick Goldie. It's one double-entendre after another: "You only want one thing," says one of Sellers's conquests. "Yes, but what a lovely thing," he sighs. Seen now, the movie is most fun for its goofy look at the gestalt of swinging London: Sellers' automated bachelor pad was surely an inspiration to the Austin Powers folks, and his checkered beige suit must be seen to be believed. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

Not a Sellers market.......2005-11-19

Peter Sellers is rightly hailed as one of the screen's great comic geniuses. Unfortunately, even a genius falters, and Sellers had more than his share of misfires. In fact, when a Peter Sellers movie is bad, it goes far beyond the usual definition of the term. This 1970 sex farce is one of his worst, which means it's unmitigated garbage.

Sellers plays a middle-aged lothario who meets his match in a free-spirited young kook (Goldie Hawn, in her second starring film role), and before long, they're off on a series of wacky romantic adventures. Nothing seems more dated than this sort of '70s "mod" comedy, and nothing seems more wasteful than an actor of Sellers' stature wallowing in material clearly beneath him. Sellers and Hawn never click as a screen couple; he comes across too smarmy and she comes across too flighty to even be a likable pair.

I hate this silly movie!!!!.......2005-11-13

stupid peter sellers is terrible in this movie, he plays a tv personality who seduces sexy women who are not sexy at all. goldie hawn is soooo ugly and she goes to bed with peter sellers nude, then the phone rings then peter is at the phone, then goldie gets out of bed, then i see her ass, then she puts on her robe (this movie is soooo immature!)

Charming Rom-Com.......2005-10-27

This is a terrifically engaging May-December romance picture about a middle aged lothario (Peter Sellers) who begins to question his value system when he embarks on an affair with an outspoken hippie chick(Goldie Hawn) in swinging London. Sellers and Hawn are wonderful together and there is a discernible screen chemistry between them. My only qualm with the film is that it's central message throughout is to extol the virtues of romance and fidelity but the ending negates that for one of promiscuity.

memorable interaction.......2005-10-04

'There's a girl in my soup' is memorable for its cute interaction between Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn. Although both Sellers and Hawn surely did better in other roles, their co-chemistry in this late Sixties-comedy deserves a closer look. Actually, I think it the only reason why this movie is still around.

Sellers acts out a pretty vain, succesful & womanizing host of a tv-show on cookery. Being truly English, he fully lives its corresponding glamor. American Goldie Hawn performs some pretty down-to-earth girl, having close ties to the underground pop-scene. Originating from these two different planets, somehow they connect.

However, their different social backgrounds never fade away -- this movie was shot in an era emphasizing on differences like that. Things get worse when Hawn messes up one of Sellers' refined wine-tastings. Gradually their differences take over, and the end of this movie inevitably sees the end of their relationship. Sellers goes on by chasing another attractive female, while Hawn disappears in the psychedelic-painted van of her underground pop-group.

If you can bear the soundtrack, it's a GEM!.......2004-07-13

Terrible music that will unfortunately stick in your head for days, but Goldie and Peter are so witty, touching and hilarious in this movie, it's worth it. I especially enjoyed the scene where Peter's character helps Goldie's character move out of her boyfriend's flat...classic. Some great moments. (It might even make you cry - and not just because of the music!) Kind of an odd movie and probably an acquired taste, but I love to pull this one out every few years and watch it again.

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George Shrinks - Coach Shrinks

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Coach Shrinks: Becky's hockey team is having a lousy year. Not only have they not won a single game; they havn't scored a single goal. George can't believe they're so bad. After all Becky is a great hockey player. At Becky's urging, George takes over coaching the team and leads them to achieve the ultimate goal - scoring one - in the last second of the last game of the season. In the Duck Soup: When Junior's favorite toy duck goes on the blink, the Shrinks take to the local toy stores to get it replaced or repaired. While there, George and Junior inadvertently activate some defective toy robots who are bent on tearing the stuffing out of Junior's duck. George has to use all his wits - and just about every toy in the store - to save his little brother's precious stuffed animal. The Lost World of George Shrinks: George and Ellen are taking care of TING-TING, Ellen's brother's pet Anole, when the little lizard escapes. The kids track the slippery reptile to an amazing plateau filled with exotic lizards of every kind. This "Lost World" turns out to be the reptile house at the local zoo. George and Ellen finally recover the lost lizard and learn a little something about following instructions.

Average customer rating:

Not a Sellers market
I hate this silly movie!!!!
Charming Rom-Com
memorable interaction
If you can bear the soundtrack, it's a GEM!

There's a Girl in My Soup [Region 2]
Starring: Peter Sellers , Goldie Hawn , Tony Britton , Nicky Henson , and Diana Dors
Director: Roy Boulting
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Binding: DVD

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Customer Reviews:

Not a Sellers market.......2005-11-19

I hate this silly movie!!!!.......2005-11-13

Charming Rom-Com.......2005-10-27

memorable interaction.......2005-10-04

If you can bear the soundtrack, it's a GEM!.......2004-07-13

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There Is a Secret in My Soup
Starring: Chiu Chiu Chan , Michael Wong , Angela Tong Ying-Ying , Christy Cheung , and Hugo Ng
Director: Yeung Chi Gin
Manufacturer: Televista
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00008AOVB
Release Date: 2007-07-31

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Starring Michael Wong, Cherry Chan, Hugo Ng, Gabriel Harrison, Tim Shaw, Angela Tong and Ng Ting. Produced by Wynn Lau. Directed by Yeung Chi Kin. Maggie lives with an abusive and cheating husband. She leaves him to stay with her friend and her husband who is a pimp. The pimp soon puts Maggie to work as a prostitute. Disillusioned Maggie turns to drugs and gambling. Hoping to make a better world for herself she runs away from the evil...but her new found freedom doesn't last long as she is soon captured by her friend's husband and his cruel henchmen. Teaching Maggie a lesson in obedience they start they torture her in most unusual and sadistic ways.

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