Frogs for Snakes

Plot

Out of work actress Eva (Hershey), pays her way by working as a waitress at a diner in Manhattan's Lower East Side owned by Quint (Hart). She makes extra cash by making collections for her ex-husband, loan shark Al (Coltrane). The film also involves Eva's new boyfriend Zip (Leguizamo), wanna-be actress Myrna (Marie), Al's girlfriend Simone (Mazar), gangster Gascone (Perlman), and Al's driver UB (Deblinger).

Eva is ready to give up both the loan collecting and acting, dreaming of a suburban house with a picket-fence lifestyle with her son Augie (Kerkoulas). Al agrees to let her go, but needs her for just one more job, locating the missing $600,000 stolen from him by Flav (Theroux). Al also plans to produce a stage production of David Mamet's American Buffalo, and he offers a role to UB if he will murder Zip.

Critical reception

The film received mostly negative reviews.

Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film zero stars:

Mark Savlov of The Austin Chronicle:

Soundtrack listing

1. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan
2. "Uneasy Street" by Lazy Boy
3. "Sweet Thing" by The Gaturs
4. "Theme From Headtrader" by Lazy Boy
5. "Destination Moon" by Dinah Washington
6. "Delivery For Mr. Rilke" by Jeffrey Howard
7. "Downtown" by Toledo Diamond
8. "The Man with The Golden Arm" by Barry Adamson
9. "Blood on White Shoes" by Howard Shore
10. "Not a Waltz" by Wolly
11. "Horns for Harry" by Jeffrey Howard
12. "Mr. Excitement" by Tipsy
13. "Fly Away" by Poe
14. "Si Mi Chiamo Mimi" from La bohème, with vocalist Luba Orgonášová and Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
15. "Fattening Frogs for Snakes" by Patti Smith