A hapless Griffin Dunne tries to make his way home from New York's Soho district in this quirky, unexpected black comedy that was nearly directed by Tim Burton, who stepped aside for Martin Scorsese when funding for The Last Temptation of Christ fell through. In some ways this Scorsese's own version of Kafka's The Trial. Sometimes its fractured tone recalls Corman's A Bucket of Blood, so it's only proper to see Dick Miller pop up as the diner owner who intones the film's title. Joe Minion's script was originally titled "Surrender Dorothy".
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