- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: ITV Studios
- DVD Release Date: 15 Jan 2007
- ASIN: B000L43B1K
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 56,187 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Pretty decent little film entertainment
1 Mar 2008
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Several years back, I bought a copy of the film under the title, "Shag-o-rama" on eBay. I am glad to see it available under the real title. The music, by Thomas Newman, has a lovely theme. The acting is more than adequate. Roasana Arquette is Lucy, a former child escape artist prodigy who can't quite get things right, who has an obsession for Houdini. She works at a outrageous surrealist themed New York restaurant run by Cecil and Dante (Andre Gregory & Buck Henry). The movie keeps things moving through restaurant heists and magic, with Marlee Matlin spouting off in sign language about an outlandish hairdo. Oh, and there's an up and coming lingerie designer with some new twists on bras. The film also pokes fun at feminism. Bowie provides the love interest, as the new bartender and an H1b desperate to tie the knot with Lucy. The movie is imminently watchable, with good characterizations.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Bowie At His Goofy Best
21 Dec 2009
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Though somewhat slowly paced, The Linguini Incident offers plenty of fierce dorkiness and absurd genius.
David Bowie gives a rare and wonderful comedic performance as Monty, a luckless gambler trying to cancel out his debts to Cecil and Dante (Andre Gregory and Buck Henry), his employers at a chic east village restaurant. Caught in the middle is Lucy (Rosanna Arquette), a failed escape artist who teams up with Monty to rob the restaurant, despite the fact that almost everything out of her partner's mouth is an obvious lie.
Quotable lines proliferate in a wittily silly script that needed only a slightly jazzier director. The movie captures a certain Manhattanesque sophisticated stupidity like few other films I've seen. Part Woody Allen, part 'Desperately Seeking Susan', part Scorsese's 'After Hours', The Linguini Incident captures New York bohemian narcissism perfectly, following a collection of hilariously self-absorbed dingbats as they wade through the fog of their own idiotic dreams and seem to bump into one another inadvertently. But as it turns out, that's how you make it in New York. Ain't love grand?
David Bowie gives a rare and wonderful comedic performance as Monty, a luckless gambler trying to cancel out his debts to Cecil and Dante (Andre Gregory and Buck Henry), his employers at a chic east village restaurant. Caught in the middle is Lucy (Rosanna Arquette), a failed escape artist who teams up with Monty to rob the restaurant, despite the fact that almost everything out of her partner's mouth is an obvious lie.
Quotable lines proliferate in a wittily silly script that needed only a slightly jazzier director. The movie captures a certain Manhattanesque sophisticated stupidity like few other films I've seen. Part Woody Allen, part 'Desperately Seeking Susan', part Scorsese's 'After Hours', The Linguini Incident captures New York bohemian narcissism perfectly, following a collection of hilariously self-absorbed dingbats as they wade through the fog of their own idiotic dreams and seem to bump into one another inadvertently. But as it turns out, that's how you make it in New York. Ain't love grand?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Funny and very entertaining.
9 Oct 2010
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A must for any David Bowie fan, a very funny and romantic comedy that makes me smile every time I watch it. A true delight.
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