The movie stars Steve Buscemi (Armagddon), Chloe Sevigny (American Psyco), Mark Boone Jr (Last of the Dogmen), Anthony La Paglia (Betsy's Wedding), Elizabeth Bracco (Money for Notrhing), Carol Kane (Scrooged), Daniel Baldwin (Sidekicks), Mimi Rogers (Lost in Space), Debi Mazar (Little Man Tate), and Seymor Cassel (It Could Happen to You).
The movies plots revolves around the bad choices Buscemi (who wrote and directed) and the consequences that come from them. Buscemi is unemployed, his pregnate ex-girlfriend (who may be carrying his child) is dating the boss who he stole money from and fired him, and may of sleeppt with a 17 year old daughter of a friend (I forgot if she is his neice).
I think Jerry Seinfeld says his name buys him about 3 minutes of good will when he does stand up. The cast does the same here but in this case the movie is good enough not to need to trade on all of the good actors in it (maybe because they are in the movie is what makes it so good).
The characters in this movie are not people who I would want to hang around with or ones that I like. But saying that I liked watching there lives unfold. They all seem to be interconnected which I think adds to the over all quality of the movie.
The only thing I did not like about the movie was the scene with the home movie. It goes in between the grainy footage of a VCR tape and the high quality of the film footage. What bothered me was the going back and forth not the bad quality of the home movie. Choose one and go with that for that one scene.
I liked the interaction between the characters in this close nit community. I am rating this movie as a B. Its not a feel good movie. What it is a good character study where the plot is not important. Its a good view of mistakes people make, regret and having to live with what you make out of life.
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