The Search For One - Eye Jimmyis a largely forgotten indie gem from the 1990s that boasts a star ensemble full of acting greats . Back in the early to mid-1990s , a roaring in indie filmmaking gave lift to a wave of successful , small budget movies that felt like a breath of tonic air following the blockbusters that dominated during the 1980s . Early Quentin Tarantino films likeReservoir Canis familiaris , Kevin Smith ’s directorial debutClerksand Richard Linklater ’s slice - of - life comedySlackersproved huge budget and major studio apartment were n’t necessitate to make timber films .

While those movies still savor popularity today , some films from the 1990s indie boom have fall into relative obscureness . slip in point : the fantastic but for the most part blank out indie gemThe Search For One - Eye Jimmy , which was made in 1993 and write and mastermind by playwright - turned - movie maker Sam Henry Kass , who went on to work as a author onSeinfeld . This far-out drollery was set and fool in Kass ’ hometown of Red Hook , Brooklyn on a ego - funded shoestring budget of $ 75,000 and – in a case of artwork imitate living – focuses on a fledgling filmmaker shooting his first feature in the post he grow up .

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That filmmaker is Les ( Holt McCallany , Mindhunter ) , a young grad fresh out of flick shoal who return to his older neck of the woods to make a documentary . After learning a local adult male – the titular One - Eye Jimmy ( Sam Rockwell ) , so cite because of his glass eye – has gone missing , Les decides to chronicle his search for him while interviewing the quirky characters that dwell the pre - gentrified Red Hook along the way .

The colorful characters that make up the cast ofThe Search For One - Eye Jimmyare played by some of Hollywood ’s most talented actors . There ’s Steve Buscemi as Jimmy ’s nonplussed brother Ed , Samuel L. Jackson as stateless Vietnam vet Colonel Ron , Tony Sirico ofThe Sopranosfame as a local loan shark know as “ The Snake ” and John Turturro as Disco Bean – a man who spends his solar day practicing 1970s , Saturday Night Fever - elan dance move in an empty storage warehouse . Turturro ’s brother Nick also appears as motor - mouthed cable car stealer Lefty as does Michael Badalucco ( The Practice ) as Joe Head , a neighborhood ne’er - do - well account to be Red Hook ’s quondam Virgo the Virgin .

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