Synopsis
A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.
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Cast
- Judd NelsonMarty Malt
- Bill PaxtonGus
- Wayne NewtonJackie Chrome
- Lara Flynn BoyleRosarita
- James CaanDr. Scurvy
- Rob LoweDirk Delta
- Claudia ChristianKitty
- Billy Bob ThorntonPatron at Sloppy's
- King MoodyTwinkee Doodle
- Danny DaytonSyd
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
Rifkin has spun a pitch-black fable of show business at its sleaziest and most ephemeral. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Rifkin has fashioned a crawly little movie that underscores the Faustian price of fame in a way that few recent films have managed. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Somewhere here, an ironic show-biz parable is trying to take shape. But director Adam Rifkin generally ignores it, preferring to flaunt the chops he has borrowed from David Lynch and John Waters. - 50
The New York Times
Mr. Rifkin's direction does display, in addition to an appreciation of Mr. Lynch and perhaps John Waters, a promising eye for design and a taste for the unusual. With less noxious material and a less patronizing manner, those talents would amount to a lot more. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
The film's sense of humor is relentlessly smutty. Rifkin attempts to wring laughs from gross food, breasts, garbage and sex with fat women. He is largely unsuccessful. - 25
Rolling Stone
Rifkin has conjured up a new low in cinematic ineptitude. - 25
The Seattle Times
This stupefyingly unfunny attempt to create a midnight cult movie stars Judd Nelson as a talentless stand-up comic who becomes a celebrity when he grows a third arm out of the middle of his back. [26 Mar 1992, p.E2]
