On July 23rd, MVD Marquee Collection releases Emmy-winning director Richard Shepard’s (“The Matador,” “Dom Hemingway,” “The Handmaid’s Tale”) debut film, “The Linguini Incident,” on Blu-ray™ for the first time, as well as DVD.
Rock music legend David Bowie (“The Man Who Fell to Earth”) and Rosanna Arquette (“Pulp Fiction”) star in the film along with Academy Award® winner Marlee Matlin (“Children of a Lesser God”), Buck Henry (“Heaven Can Wait”), Eszter Balint (“Stranger Than Paradise”), Andre Gregory (“Demolition Man”), Viveca Lindfors (“The Sure Thing”), James Avery (“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”), and Maura Tierney (“Liar Liar”).
“The Linguini Incident” is a romantic caper about a perennially underpaid waitress named Lucy (Arquette) and Monte (Bowie), a mysterious, charming (and very in debt) bartender. Lucy is seriously in need of cash and Monte needs to marry someone, anyone, by the end of the week… or else. Together, they join forces — along with Lucy’s lingerie-designing best friend, Viv (Balint) — to rob their terminally hip New York City restaurant and solve their financial woes. However, these three are far from master criminals, and they soon learn that in robberies, as in love, things never go as planned.
Originally released in the Spring of 1992, co-writer and director Richard Shepard and producer Sarah Jackson re-claimed the rights to Shepard’s debut feature film, scanned and restored the movie in 4K, and assembled a never-before-seen director’s cut. The Blu-ray™ comes packed with bonus content, including commentaries, a documentary about the making of the film, a photo gallery, new and archival trailers, artwork, a booklet, and a limited edition slipcover for the first pressing only.
Available on Blu-ray™ and DVD July 23rd
