Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily, just serves to compound Banana's despair.
Acting
Buscemi's pathetic clown energy is uncomfortably perfect.
Direction
Rockwell's cramped, kinetic framing traps you with these losers.
Writing
Dialogue that feels improvised but probably wasn't.
Director
Alexandre Rockwell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of early-2000s 'one crazy night' indies that tried to recapture Pulp Fiction's energy with way less budget and way more sincerity.
Rockwell made this between In the Soup and Pete Smalls Is Dead—his unofficial 'desperate men in crummy apartments' trilogy.
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