Taglines: He wants to be tied down. She wants to be tied up. It’s not what you think.
The Linguini Incident movie storyline. Lucy (Rosanna Arquette) is a young woman who works at a restaurant in Manhattan. She is constantly annoyed by her gambling, egotistical bosses. She has an ambition to be an escape artist, specifically a modern female version of Harry Houdini, with her best friend, Vivian (Eszter Balint) as her assistant. Lucy also collects anything that once belonged to Mrs. Houdini.
The movie starts with Lucy questioning who the new bartender (David Bowie) is. She finds out his name is Monte, he’s from Britain and will tell any lie in order to get a woman to marry him. He makes it clear he only wants to marry because he is in dire need of a green card, because if he doesn’t and has to go back to Britain, he will surely die. The two chat, with Monte desperately asking Lucy out for breakfast, even though Lucy doesn’t want to.
Later on, Lucy is practising an escape trick when she loses her balance and becomes trapped by the noose she was planning to escape from. Her wrists and ankles are both cuffed, meaning Lucy can’t free herself. She cries herself to sleep after having not been able to reach the key that unlocks the cuffs. She is awoken in the morning by a phone call. She struggles to answer it but manages to by kicking the phone onto the ground so she can hear it.
It’s Monte wanting to take her out for breakfast, having found her number in the Yellow Pages. Lucy begs him to come to her apartment to untie her. He frees her legs and unites the noose but will only free her hands on the condition that she marries him. Lucy, unsettled, declines, so Monte handcuffs Lucy to himself and the bed before falling asleep, with an upset Lucy following suit.
The Linguini Incident is a 1991 American comedic film set in New York starring Rosanna Arquette, David Bowie, Eszter Balint, Marlee Matlin, Buck Henry, Viveca Lindfors, Marlee Matlin, Eloy Casados, Maura Tierney and Eloy Casados. The film was directed by Richard Shepard, who co-wrote the script with Tamar Brott.
The Linguini Incident (1991)
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, David Bowie, Eszter Balint, Marlee Matlin, Buck Henry, Viveca Lindfors, Marlee Matlin, Eloy Casados, Maura Tierney, Eloy Casados
Screenplay by: Tamar Brott, Richard Shepard
Production Design by: Marcia Hinds
Cinematography by: Robert D. Yeoman
Film Editing by: Sonya Polonsky:
Set Decoration by: Jerie Kelter
Art Direction by: Bo Johnson
Music by: Thomas Newman
Distributed by: Academy Entertainment
Release Date: May 1, 1991
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