Cold Dog Soup (1990)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Alan Metter

Writers (WGA):

Stephen Dobyns (book)
Thomas Pope (screenplay)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed...

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Black Comedy | Based On Book | Independent Film

Cast

Randy Quaid	...	Jack Cloud
Frank Whaley	...	Michael Latchmer
Christine Harnos	...	Sarah Hughes (as Kristina Harnos)
Sheree North	...	Mrs. Hughes
Nancy Kwan	...	Madame Chang
Dante Basco	...	Chinese Boy
Peter Pan	...	Chinese Chef
Pierre Epstein	...	Marty
Jeff Chayette	...	Hershel the Guard
Allan Trautman	...	Joseph
Allen Bloomfield	...	Irving
Evi Motolanez	...	Girl on Guard
Nick LaTour	...	The Bokor
Clifford Shegog	...	Voodoo Doorman
Brent Hinkley	...	Benny

Runtime:

87 min | Brazil:100 min | Australia:85 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Culver Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Aspen Film Society

Trivia:

The character of Jack Cloud was originally scripted as a black Caribbean man and Little Richard was suggested for the role.

Quotes:

Sarah Hughes: I wanna be your suck oven.

Incredible Gem and Sleeper--The low rating is a hit job.

I was so incredibly lucky years ago when I was home one weekday morning and saw this on the USA channel. The low rating is definitely a hit job. (Hundreds of people type in low scores for an obscure, little-seen film that other people consider superb, delightful, refreshing?) As the hero's quest goes on, there may have been some longeurs, but the wild and wacky original humor of this movie makes this a small classic.

Everyone with taste and insight loves Frank Whaley and he is at his Frank Whaley-ist here: vulnerable and funny, tender and oppressed, buffeted by forces he cannot control.

The characterization of the girlfriend is bizarre, to say the least--for reasons you'll have to watch the film to see. And the film also reminds us that the late Sheree North was a delightful comedienne, not just a onetime starlet.

This is perhaps the best, most worthwhile comedy that almost nobody has ever seen. If MTV can show a crappy movie like "Rolling Kansas" over and over and over, why can't they show this?