The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy Reviews

Despite assistance from a few surprisingly important actors -- Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro -- Sam Henry Kass's directing debut is an indie bagatelle, completely graceless and rarely funny. Film grad Les (Holt McCallany) returns to his old Brooklyn neighborhood to shoot a documentary and soon finds himself caught up in the titular search for Jimmy (Sam Rockwell), whose recent disappearance has become a local obsession. We'd like to call this the latest, and hopefully the last, in a seemingly endless string of quirky low-budget caper films, all of which seem to feature Buscemi and various subsets of the casts of RESERVOIR DOGS and SEARCH AND DESTROY. However, since this self-consciously wacky little comedy was shot in 1993, it's actually something of a pioneer in the field.