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Plot:
Directed by Oscar winner Robert Benton ("Kramer vs. Kramer"), the story is based on a Charles Baxter novel and revolves around a community of friends in Oregon who navigate the sometimes painful incar...( read more
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MCT:June 19, 2008Esther Stevenson: "How was your walk? Did I miss anything?
Harry Stevenson: A cool breeze, a softball game, and two women falling in love.
Esther Stevenson: With each other?
Harry Stevenson: And one of them's married. The funny thing is, no one noticed. Not even the husband, two feet away.
Esther Stevenson: I'm sorry I missed that.
Harry Stevenson: I imagine he will be too."
Feast of Love revolves around Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby), a damaged university professor spending a good deal of his leave of absence hanging out at a small Portland coffee shop run by his good friend Bradley (Greg Kinnear, As Good As It Gets). Harry's remarkably perceptive: he can see Bradley's marriage falling apart long before it happens, just as he can see Cupid's arrow strike Bradley's sole employee Oscar (Toby Hemingway, The Covenant) in the ass the moment Chloe (Alexa Davalos, The Chronicles of Riddick) walks in the door. But all of his insight into others might just be to void looking at himself. Added to the mix of lovestruck adventurers are Bradley's sexually awakened wife Kathryn (Selma Blair, Hellboy), a wealthy real estate agent (Radha Mitchell, Silent Hill) and her married lover (Billy Burke, Ladder 49), and Oscar's alcoholic?and psychotic?father (Fred Ward, Tremors). Much coupling, uncoupling, and recoupling ensues. Feast of Love pulls off an impressive balancing act of stretching realism for the sake of telling a good tale while never losing its sense of grounding. Feast of Love strives for, and more often than not achieves, emotional truth, and with that goal in mind such things as realistic timeframes give way to unlikely coincidences, yet we never stop buying into the story. Kinnear's Bradley is the heart of the film. The character could have easily been turned into a joke but with Kinnear in the role Bradley, despite all the tribulations heaped upon him, he becomes the film's tower of strength and its emotional compass. Kinnear's glance conveys a world of love lost and love gained. The film does start off with the well-worn cliché about the gods inventing love for their amusement, but at least the people here learn that life, for all its heartbreak and pain, is short and love can fulfill their very human needs. -
MCT:June 18, 2008
Not a gourmet meal, but tastefully prepared and pleasant enough to satisfy an appetite for a heartfelt drama. "The unexpected is always upon us.........and so we begin again." Recommended.
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MCT:April 1, 2008The sweet naked body of Erika Marozsán in Gloomy Sunday once made me vow to save up money for a trip to Hungary to ask for her hand. Sadly, I have waited 10 years for a movie this mediocre, didactic and pointless to be her first Hollywood foray, and also I have found someone else.
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MCT:February 4, 2008
A touching, passionate, charming, funny and very effective film. Heart-breaking, powerful, exceptional and satisfying. An absolutely marvelous and wonderful movie. It's a feast of laughs ad heart. Sexy, inteligent and extroadinary. Romantic dramas like this rarely come around. Outragiously clever dialouge and wonderful direction. A great cast. Greg Kinnear and Morgan Freeman have never been better or funnier. They have such outstanding chemistry together which makes the film even more enjoyable. Kinnear is magnificent. Freeman is excellent. This movie shows the heart break and strength of love.
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MCT:January 30, 2008
Essentially a feel-good Hollywood rom-com, except loaded with sex scenes. Quite a rarity. Depressing and with its share of predictability, when touching on issues such as infidelity and death, but also uplifting and tender. The performances are excellent, by far the best thing the film has to offer. Particularly Freeman, who clearly relishes having an emotional role for once, as opposed to the wise old mentor figures he usually plays. Kinnear is equally good, while Davalos shines in the film's most emotionally complex role - her final scenes with Freeman are genuinely moving. Worth the watch, although far from what legendary director Robert Benton has done.
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MCT:January 1, 2009
Generally speaking, this one's not bad. It lays on the intellectual musings of love and the moral that love does indeed conquer all quite heavily, but judging by the title, I suppose that's to be expected. It is, in a word, sweet. That's all.
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Video Clips for Feast of Love
http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/feastoflove/trailer1/posted 528 days ago
