The Way It Is (1985)

Directors

Eric Mitchell

Cast

Steve Buscemi

The story

A group of East Village off Broadway actors are rehearsing a local no wave production of Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus when the lead actress, Eurydice, is found dead in Tompkins Square Park. At the funeral, the history of Eurydice is revealed in flashbacks and recollections by the actors, each a suspect in the murder. Together they examine their decadent relationships with Eurydice within the context of decayed East Village tenement buildings and the Mudd Club so to try to unravel the mystery of her death.

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