Many low-budget films strive to be genuinely offbeat with stories, characters and situations that just aren't ready for big-studio treatment. Perhaps because it doesn't strive, RUBIN & ED, a shaggy dog buddy-buddy comedy, singularly succeeds in being genuinely quirky fun.
Rubin Farr (Crispin Glover) lives in a motel managed by his mother, where he mostly stays in his room listening to music, dreaming of a love affair with a bikini poster pinup girl (Brittnew Lewis) and mourning the death of his cat, whose corpse he is keeping in the freezer until he can find the
right spot to bury it. Ed Tuttle (Howard Hesseman), meanwhile, is a would-be yuppie without style, sm...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
82 mins