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Frogs for Snakes
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Wikipedia article
'Frogs for Snakes' is a 1998 film written and directed by Amos Poe.
Plot
Out of work actress Eva (Hershey), pays her way by working as a waitress at a diner in Manhattan's Lower East Side owned by Quint (Hart). She makes extra cash by making collections for her ex-husband, loan shark Al (Coltrane). The film also involves Eva's new boyfriend Zip (Leguizamo), wanna-be actress Myrna (Marie), Al's girlfriend Simone (Mazar), gangster Gascone (Perlman), and Al's driver UB (Deblinger).
Eva is ready to give up both the loan collecting and acting, dreaming of a suburban house with a picket-fence lifestyle with her son Augie (Kerkoulas). Al agrees to let her go, but needs her for just one more job, locating the missing $600,000 stolen from him by Flav (Theroux). Al also plans to produce a stage production of David Mamet's 'American Buffalo', and he offers a role to UB if he will murder Zip.
Principal cast
* Barbara Hershey as Eva Santana
* Robbie Coltrane as Al Santana
* Ian Hart as Quint
* John Leguizamo as "Zip"
* Debi Mazar as Simone
* Ron Perlman as Gascone
* Justin Theroux as "Flav" Santana
* Clarence Williams III as Huck Hanley
* Harry Hamlin as Klench
* Lisa Marie as Myrna L'Hatsky
* Nick Chinlund as Iggy Schmurtz
* David Deblinger as U.B.
* Zak Kerkoulas as Augie
Critical reception
The film received mostly negative reviews.
Roger Ebert of 'The Chicago Sun-Times' gave the film zero stars:
Mark Savlov of 'The Austin Chronicle':
Soundtrack listing
#"Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan
#"Uneasy Street" by Lazy Boy
#"Sweet Thing" by The Gaturs
#"Theme From Headtrader" by Lazy Boy
#"Destination Moon" by Dinah Washington
#"Delivery For Mr. Rilke" by Jeffrey Howard
#"Downtown" by Toledo Diamond
#"The Man with The Golden Arm" by Barry Adamson
#"Blood on White Shoes" by Howard Shore
#"Not a Waltz" by Wolly
#"Horns for Harry" by Jeffrey Howard
#"Mr. Excitement" by Tipsy
#"Fly Away" by Poe
#"Si Mi Chiamo Mimi" from La bohme, with vocalist Luba Orgonov and Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
#"Fattening Frogs for Snakes" by Patti Smith
References
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