Rubin and Ed [Blu-ray]

Director: Trent Harris Trent Harris

Overview

Rubin & Ed is Trent Harris' off-the-wall buddy movie about two mismatched geeks on a quest to bury a frozen cat. Rubin Farr (Crispin Glover) is a shy, reclusive loner who lives in his mother's hotel. He'd much rather sit in his bedroom listening to Mahler, playing with his squeaky-mouse, than go outside. His mother has other plans, however, and one afternoon she decides to pull the plug on Rubin's eccentric behavior. She demands that he go out and make at least one friend. Rubin capitulates, and after a somewhat half-hearted search, he finds Ed Tuttle (Howard Hesseman, in one of his best performances). Ed is a divorced, middle-aged loser enrolled in a self-help/ get-rich-quick organization called PPR: Positive Power through Real Estate. Ed agrees to have dinner with Rubin and his mother if Rubin agrees to attend a PPR training seminar. All goes as planned for both, until Ed opens the freezer and discovers Rubin's dead cat. The unlikely pair then embarks on an hallucinatory quest through the Utah desert in order to find the perfect spot to bury Rubin's cat. Though at first mutually disgusted by each other, Rubin and Ed eventually learn how to become friends. Karen Black is superb as Ed Tuttle's annoying ex-wife Rula, as is Michael Greene as PPR magnate Mr. Busta.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/18/2020
UPC:	0043396567573
Original Release:	1992
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Sales rank:	24,475

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Howard Hesseman	Ed Tuttle
Crispin Glover	Rubin Farr
Karen Black	Rula
Michael Greene	Busta
Brittney Lewis	Poster Girl

Technical Credits

Trent Harris	Director
Tim Bevan	Executive Producer
Sarah Radclyffe	Executive Producer
Paul Webster	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Featuring one of the most unlikely film duos ever to grace the screen, this uneven but undeniably fascinating effort from director Trent Harris offers a captivatingly hallucinatory and amusingly quirky journey into the minds of a true misfit (Crispin Glover) and a man unable to find the strength stand up for himself (Howard Hesseman). Fans of Glover will no doubt be entertained by his determination to provide a proper burial for his cat at any cost, and Hesseman's frustrated but equally determined attempt to deal with Glover while insisting that he buy into a cheap motivational scam is also sure to amuse. Alternately repulsive and surreal in it's humor, Harris' debut feature keeps things generally low-key despite the outrageous events, and by the time our duo makes it back to the city, they have come to form an unlikely friendship that is as oddly convincing as it is endearing. Glover's ridiculously exaggerated platform shoes recall a hilariously uncomfortable moment that made late-night talk show history on The David Letterman Show, and Karen Black's gratingly shrill performance highlights a closing scene in which Glover makes good use of the memorable footwear.