Frogs for Snakes
| Frogs for Snakes | |
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| Directed by | Amos Poe |
| Produced by | Phyllis Freed Kaufman Larry Meistrich Daniel J. Victor |
| Screenplay by | Amos Poe |
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| Music by | Lazy Boy |
| Cinematography | Enrique Chediak |
| Edited by | Jeff Kushner |
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Shooting Gallery
Rain Film |
| Distributed by | Artisan Entertainment |
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108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $20,693 (USA) |
Frogs for Snakes is a 1998 film written and directed by Amos Poe.
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.
The film received mostly negative reviews.
Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film zero stars:
Mark Savlov of The Austin Chronicle:
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