The Linguini Incident
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| Directed by | Richard Shepard |
| Produced by | Sarah Jackson Arnold Orgolini |
| Written by | Tamar Brott Richard Shepard |
| Starring | Rosanna Arquette David Bowie Eszter Balint Marlee Matlin Buck Henry Viveca Lindfors |
| Music by | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | Robert Yeoman |
| Distributed by | Academy Entertainment |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Linguini Incident is a 1991 American comedic film set in New York starring David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette. The film was directed by Richard Shepard, who co-wrote the script with Tamar Brott.
Plot
Lucy (Arquette) is a frustrated magician, specifically an escape artist, who is obsessed with becoming a modern female version of Harry Houdini. She collects Houdini artifacts and waits for her big break while working as a waitress at a trendy Manhattan restaurant. With British bartender, Monte (Bowie), and her roommate Vivian, she arranges a heist of the restaurant. Monte is also determined to get Lucy to marry him, under the pretense that he needs his green card.
Cast
- David Bowie as Monte
- Rosanna Arquette as Lucy
- Marlee Matlin as Jeanette
- Buck Henry as Cecil
Iman and Julian Lennon have brief cameos in the movie.[1]
Release
The movie was released to VHS in 1992.
Critical response
Reviews of the movie were mostly negative. Empire magazine gave the movie one star out of five, calling it "an unbearably protracted dud".[2] Variety magazine called the movie an "uninspired, poverty row production" and lamented the mis-casting of Bowie in the lead role.[1] A review by The New York Times is positive and approves of the film's casting.[3] TV Guide gave the movie 2 stars out of 5.[4]
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Linguini Incident at IMDb
- The Linguini Incident at the TCM Movie Database
- The Linguini Incident at AllMovie
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