Film: Sour Grapes (1998)

Two cousins go to Atlantic City and one wins $400,000 on the slot machine but the other think he's entitled to half since it was his quarters and it doesn't go well for either from there on. Sour Grapes is Larry Davids only directional work and his first project after Seinfeld and before Curb. Overall the humour and characters feel like they should belong in a Seinfeld episode and unfortunately would probably work better there. SG is very dark in places, one of the characters attempts to kill his own mother by scaring her to death, these quite of traits would not belong in either of Davids other projects. This is probably where the freedom lies in making a film like this as there is no recognizable characters for the audience. The film was failure both commercially and critically and I can see why, whilst Davids humour is clear it doesn't quite work. Maybe under a different director it could of been better.