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The Linguini Incident [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]

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Several years back, I bought a copy of the film under the title, "Shag-o-rama" on eBay. I am glad to see it available under the real title. The music, by Thomas Newman, has a lovely theme. The acting is more than adequate. Roasana Arquette is Lucy, a former child escape artist prodigy who can't quite get things right, who has an obsession for Houdini. She works at a outrageous surrealist themed New York restaurant run by Cecil and Dante (Andre Gregory & Buck Henry). The movie keeps things moving through restaurant heists and magic, with Marlee Matlin spouting off in sign language about an outlandish hairdo. Oh, and there's an up and coming lingerie designer with some new twists on bras. The film also pokes fun at feminism. Bowie provides the love interest, as the new bartender and an H1b desperate to tie the knot with Lucy. The movie is imminently watchable, with good characterizations.

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?

A must for any David Bowie fan, a very funny and romantic comedy that makes me smile every time I watch it. A true delight.

It was a quirky, romance. It was great David Bowie was great and so was everyone else in the movie. I hate sappy love stories and this was not sappy. It was funny and fun.

I bought this movie on VHS years ago. It's a great romantic screwball comedy, with a title that doesn't have much to do with the plot at all (except for a few moments at the end), but that only makes it fit all the better.

I was worried it wasn't ever going to be released on DVD before my tape started wearing out. So glad to have stumbled across it after several years of searching. It's a very basic DVD, no frills or extra features, but for the price I'm not complaining. I do have to admit, I have some issues with the cover. It depicts a diner when, in fact, most of the movie takes place within a trendy, underground New York restaurant where the rich and elite "Trend-sucking leeches" dwell.

The acting is good. The soundtrack is excellent. And the story is just plain fun. Definitely worth a watch or three.

Good movie. Some really funny parts. And, it's got David Bowie need I say more?