Fast Sofa |  | Director: Salomé Breziner
Actors: Jake Busey, Crispin Glover, Natasha Lyonne, Adam Goldberg, Eric Roberts
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 87402
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1589711548
UPC: 658149794627
EAN: 9781589711549
ASIN: B00005V9ID
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: March 26, 2002
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 12
 Two reasons to watch this movie January 25, 2010
Patrick Hall (Providence RI)
And they are Tilley and Glover. And that's it. Why Jake Busey was cast for this role is beyond me. Granted, it's not entirely his fault. His character is written to be completely reprehensible to the point that you not only cease to care about him, but wish he were dead. Busey's "Rick" is so irresponcible that the entire movie is spent wondering why you care at all what's happening to him. Not that this is a problem exclusive to Rick, because the truth is not one on the characters in this movie is worth anounce of sympathy, except maybe the poor 16 year old girl who falls for Rick's charms.
Even Tilley and Glover--whom I liked--have very one dimensional characters. There is an attempt to inject some depth into them, but it falls pretty flat to the point that once they are opened up, they morph into completely different people. Tilley for instance, plays a bimbo harlet whose only concern in life is making porn and having relations with random strangers, and whom you couldn't care for in the least until the strange scene at the end when she suddenly turns into an intelligent but hardened girl with underlying abuse issues as an explaination for her behavior.
Besides the poor characters and script (which tries very hard to capture some philosophical point but again makes you hate the movie even more), the editing techniques are irritating and stupid. So are a number of metaphorical symbols, such as the hawk (I wonder what the director was trying to say????)which occupies more time than it deserved.
I gave the movie 2 stars because I thought Tilley and Glover did great with what they had to work with. Neither has great range, but they are the best at the respective roles. Tilley could have been the quintessential film noir femme fatale back in the 40's, just as Glover could have been the creepy guy in B horror films. If you can find this somewhere for a dollar or so, buy it for a lazy weekend day, but don't waste your money otherwise.
 not even crispin glover could save this film June 23, 2008
L. Connor (Minneapolis, MN)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
My husband and I are Crispin fans, to a degree that we try to watch whatever work of his we can find. This movie may have changed that ideology, as this film is painfully bad. And by painfully bad, I have to note that it is NOT bad in the way that one can sit back and enjoy how thoroughly awful a film is, like one would with Ro-Man the Robot Monster or Pitch Black which is horrendously-achingly-funnily bad, no this film is BAD. Disappointing. BAD.
 Fast Sofa - Amazing writing!!! December 7, 2007
Charles R. Hansen (Monroe, NY USA)
One of the best, well written screen plays I have seen. Interesting, thought provoking movie. Fine performances by all actors.
Fear The Glover September 2, 2007
William Ball
This movie is so strange I , dont feel as if I could explain it at all. I guess you could say it's just one of those movies you have to see for yourself? I thought Jake Busey was really good in this and his acting was amazing, but the movie just had no plot. I honestly felt uncomfortable watching this. It has way to many porn scenes, and some very gross humor. Crispin Glover stole the show, he was awesome in this movie ,but I dont know if he could save it from being trash on film. There is also a very neat little cameo by the legendary punk band Fear which is really cool. All in all I gave Fast Sofa a 2 out of 5 stars and I think that was pretty nice of me............This is what you would call a pass.
PS: The way this movie ends is just plain out lame.It almost feels like they just ran out of money and stoped filming.
Crispin Glover saves Fast Sofa from being unwatchable March 16, 2007
Z. Freeman (Austin, TX)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Fast Sofa starts out very unpromisingly. An agonizingly long sequence of Jake Busey and Natasha Lyonne sexing it up intercut with shots of Jennifer Tilly as a porn star moaning in one of her videos. All of it with some mediocre rock playing over it. Talk about bad beginnings.
The first 45 minutes of Fast Sofa are filled with poorly acted scenes and seem to lack any sense of meaning or purpose. Adam Goldberg's character is almost entirely unnecessary. What saves this move right at the "time to switch it off" breaking point is the entrance of Crispin Glover.
With short, red, '50's styled hair, a slightly sun-burned face, a lazy eye, and a wool suit, Crispin Glover enters the picture and the whole atmosphere changes. It literally feels like a different movie. The rest of the actors step up their own game just acting alongside him.
At this point the film becomes somewhat of a "so opposite they just click" buddy movie, in which Jake Busey is the neanderthalish tough guy whose thoughts revolve around the female sex, and mostly around one specific member of that sex, Jennifer Tilly. Crispin Glover is the soft-spoken, introverted, biological genius who has never had sex or gotten drunk. The two actually make a very engaging pair on screen.
If the director would have cut about 30 minutes of the first 45 out, and then left out some of the Jennifer Tilly plot-line this movie would have had a chance at cult status. The plot line with Busey and Glover is intriguing and fun to watch. The audience never really knows what's going to happen next.
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The DVD doesn't have any extras, but honestly I don't know what kind of extras there could be. Maybe another cut of the film that's shorter and more fun to watch?
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