Product Details

• Actors: José Rafael Arango, Nikki Arlyn, David Cale, Nick Chinlund, Robbie Coltrane
• Directors: Amos Poe
• Writers: Amos Poe
• Producers: Ara Cohen, Daniel J. Victor, Jonathan Starch, Keith Abell, Kenneth Scott
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: October 17, 2000
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004U29E
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #47,294 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
In the tradition of such hard-boiled crime films as Get Shorty and Pulp Fiction, FROGS FOR SNAKES is a sexy neo-noir thriller centering on a group of New York theatre actors who moonlight as illegal money collectors. Unlucky in love, Eva (Barbara Hershey) has the most acting ability, but she dreams of abandoning the twisted underworld and living a quieter life on the beaches of Long Island. Her mob-boss-ex-husband Al (Robbie Coltrane) is a theatre impresario who promises acting roles in his upcoming production of David Marmet's classic play American Buffalo to those actors willing to kill for the part. Al wants Eva to pull off one more hit, promising her enough money from the job to start a new life. After she rejects his offer, she learns that her lover Zip (John Leguizamo) was shot dead leaving her apartment the night before. Now it's time to settle the score in this steamy, ultra-hip thriller.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this movie is great, March 6, 2003

By A Customer

if you didn't like it, you have no idea what goes on in the new york acting world. you'll do better with Third watch!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Black comic frogs and snakes, July 20, 2000

By A Customer

I'm not going to give any of the plot away-it's already too much to tell the viewer it's black comedy-but this film is one of the rare finds that's interesting, arty without being pretentious, very well acted and directed and shot, and quite well written. It has a ton of kitsch, a color that is well lit and very Edward Hopperish in its look and feel. Barbara Hersey is great, but there's not a clinker in the film, and many of players, even some quite small parts, are fantastic. This is film, it ain't a movie.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Kinda like jazz, March 11, 2006

By	Zinc Ointment "Smoke" (USA) - See all my reviews

Very self indulgent ACTING. Not much there for the audience, unless you are watching for the ACTING. Pretty much total trash otherwise.