I was able to stream this online after a lot of perseverance. It's good and features one of my favourite soundtracks of all-time, especially Sister Sledge's 'Let's go on Vacation'.
The film follows Allan, (Saul Rubinek) a deeply neurotic and dopey looking television producer living in NYC whose unearned shallowness knows no bounds. He dates many women far out of his league in hopes of meeting his dream girl, and when he blatantly reveals his lack of interest in each and every one of them, that only makes them want him more and Allan begrudgingly beds each woman, because why not, right? Ugh.
Allan becomes so obsessed with looking for his dream girl that he somehow convinces a sketch artist to sketch her based off his description. Shortly after that, Maria (Marcia Strassman) enters Allan's life and convinced that she is his dream girl, he spends the rest of the film stalking her, annoying her and displaying so much aberrant behaviour towards her that she just gives up and accepts his many marriage proposals. However now that Allan has everything he wants - is he happy now? Spoiler alert: No, because Allan is a jerk.
After reading the above description, you may be thinking this just sounds like a typical Woody Allen rip-off and you would be very right. Although, there are also amazing things about this film that include:
SOUP FOR ONE may have been just another generic rip-off when the film was initially released, however its chaotic absurdism is strangely appealing now and leaves it open to be re-discovered as a "cult" film.
Recommended.
The film follows Allan, (Saul Rubinek) a deeply neurotic and dopey looking television producer living in NYC whose unearned shallowness knows no bounds. He dates many women far out of his league in hopes of meeting his dream girl, and when he blatantly reveals his lack of interest in each and every one of them, that only makes them want him more and Allan begrudgingly beds each woman, because why not, right? Ugh.
Allan becomes so obsessed with looking for his dream girl that he somehow convinces a sketch artist to sketch her based off his description. Shortly after that, Maria (Marcia Strassman) enters Allan's life and convinced that she is his dream girl, he spends the rest of the film stalking her, annoying her and displaying so much aberrant behaviour towards her that she just gives up and accepts his many marriage proposals. However now that Allan has everything he wants - is he happy now? Spoiler alert: No, because Allan is a jerk.
After reading the above description, you may be thinking this just sounds like a typical Woody Allen rip-off and you would be very right. Although, there are also amazing things about this film that include:
- an opening sequence featuring disco dancing rats.
- an awesome disco soundtrack produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers (the co-founders of CHIC).
- a glorious cameo of the late and great Teddy Pendergrass as a nightclub singer.
- Christine Baranski and Andrea Martin making cameos as horny one-night stands.
- A scene involving actor Gerrit Graham and BDSM.
SOUP FOR ONE may have been just another generic rip-off when the film was initially released, however its chaotic absurdism is strangely appealing now and leaves it open to be re-discovered as a "cult" film.
Recommended.