Watching the extremely dark comedy, Chili Finger, you have to believe directors Edd Benda and Stephen Helstad wanted to grow up to become the Coen Bros.
This movie, set in Nekoosa, Wisconsin is right out of the Blood Simple/Fargo playbook even to the point of recruiting a Coens favorite, John Goodman, for a key role. It is all based loosely as the title card indicates on a real life incident in which a woman found a human finger in her bowl of chili at a fast food restaurant. From that starting point Helstad ran wild with his imagination in crafting this twisty story .
Jessica Lipky (Judy Greer) and her lumbering husband Ron (Sean Astin) are about to become empty nesters as they send their only daughter, Kris (Shaya Harris) off to college. This parental passage of life
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