Frogs for Snakes
Frogs for Snakes is a 1998 film written and directed by Amos Poe.
Plot
Out of work actress Eva, pays her way by working as a waitress at a diner in Manhattan's Lower East Side owned by Quint. She makes extra cash by making collections for her ex-husband, loan shark Al. The film also involves Eva's new boyfriend Zip, wanna-be actress Myrna, Al's girlfriend Simone, gangster Gascone, and Al's driver UB.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. Al agrees to let her go, but needs her for just one more job, locating the missing $600,000 stolen from him by Flav. 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
- Mike Starr as Crunch Gwiazda
- Harry Hamlin as Klench
- Marie (actress)|Lisa Marie] as Myrna L'Hatsky
- Nick Chinlund as Iggy Schmurtz
- David Deblinger as U.B.
- Zak Kerkoulas as Augie
- Nicole Arlyn as Flo
Critical reception
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 bohème, with vocalist Luba Orgonášová and Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
- "Fattening Frogs for Snakes" by Patti Smith