Despite assistance from a few surprisingly important actors -- Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro -- Sam Henry Kass's directing debut is an indie bagatelle, completely graceless and rarely funny. Film grad Les (Holt McCallany) returns to his old
Brooklyn neighborhood to shoot a documentary and soon finds himself caught up in the titular search for Jimmy (Sam Rockwell), whose recent disappearance has become a local obsession. We'd like to call this the latest, and hopefully the last, in a seemingly endless string of quirky low-budget caper
films, all of which seem to feature Buscemi and various subsets of the casts of RESERVOIR DOGS and SEARCH AND DESTR...
Released:
1996
Rated:
NR
Length:
82 mins