Based on his own experiences, writer and director Alexandre Rockwell’s suitably grungy black-and-white off-beat comedy gives Steve Buscemi one of his early leading roles as Adolpho Rollo, a penniless New York screenwriter with big cinematic ambitions, a 500-page screenplay to sell and debt collectors looking to throw him out of his crumbling apartment. 

When he puts a small ad in the paper it attracts the backing of charismatic criminal, Joe (Seymour Cassel – who would appear alongside Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs made the same year) who takes Adolpho on a liberating odyssey through Manhattan, introducing the writer to the wilder side of life. 

At the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, In the Soup picked up the Grand Jury Prize (beating the heavily-hyped Reservoir Dogs); and is now ripe for rediscovery on the big screen, newly restored.

A 4K restoration c/o IndieCollect.