The Linguini Incident (1991) with David Bowie

Though somewhat slowly paced, The Linguini Incident offers plenty of fierce dorkiness and absurd genius.

David Bowie gives a rare and wonderful comedic performance as Monty, a luckless gambler trying to cancel out his debts to Cecil and Dante (Andre Gregory and Buck Henry), his employers at a chic east village restaurant. Caught in the middle is Lucy (Rosanna Arquette), a failed escape artist who teams up with Monty to rob the restaurant, despite the fact that almost everything out of her partner's mouth is an obvious lie.

Quotable lines proliferate in a wittily silly script that needed only a slightly jazzier director. The movie captures a certain Manhattanesque sophisticated stupidity like few other films I've seen. Part Woody Allen, part 'Desperately Seeking Susan', part Scorsese's 'After Hours', The Linguini Incident captures New York bohemian narcissism perfectly, following a collection of hilariously self-absorbed dingbats as they wade through the fog of their own idiotic dreams and seem to bump into one another inadvertently. But as it turns out, that's how you make it in New York. Ain't love grand?

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