Starring: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander,
Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Selma Blair, Stana Katic, Billy Burke, Fred Ward,
Erika Marozsan
Review:
The warm,
reassuring gravitas of
Morgan Freeman anchors
Feast of Love, a
multi-character meditation
on the mysteries of that
oh-so-powerful emotion.
Bradley (Greg Kinnear,
Little Miss Sunshine),
owner of a coffee shop in
Oregon, thinks his marriage
is idyllic--until his wife
(Selma Blair, Hellboy)
leaves him for another
woman. One of Bradley's
baristas (Toby Hemingway,
The Covenant) falls head
over heels for a girl who
comes looking for a job (Alexa
Davalos, The Chronicles
of Riddick), but his
abusive father (Fred Ward,
Miami Blues) spells
trouble for the
relationship. Finally, a
professor (Freeman) and his
wife (Jane Alexander,
Kramer vs. Kramer)
struggle to find purpose in
life in the aftermath of a
personal tragedy. Though
some scenes are a bit
precious and the dialogue
leans too much on
semi-philosophical
pronouncements, viewers will
find it hard not to identify
with the universal trials of
romance and the yearning for
a family. Also starring
Radha Mitchell (High Art,
Pitch Black) as a
real estate broker who can't
stop seeing a married man.
Warning: Feast of Love
is predominantly about the
ways of the heart, it
features several fairly
explicit sex scenes...more
Extras:
Commentary by Benton, "What
Fools These Mortals Be"
featurette, "A Merry Feast"
featurette, "The Players"
featurette, The Cary
Brothers "Honestly" music
video. (MGM).
Movie Spotlight
Feast of Love Release
Date:
September 28, 2007 Studio: MGM Director: Robert Benton Screenwriter: Allison Burnett Starring: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander,
Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Selma Blair, Stana Katic, Billy Burke, Fred Ward,
Erika Marozsan Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content, nudity and language) Official Website: FeastofLovefilm.com
Plot Summary: From venerable Academy Award® winning director Robert
Benton ("Kramer vs. Kramer"), comes a kaleidoscopic ode to life and love in all
its funny, sad, sexy, crazy, heartbreaking and life sustaining facets: "Feast of
Love." In a coffee shop in a tight-knit Oregon community, local professor Harry
Stevenson (Academy Award® winner Morgan Freeman) witnesses love and attraction
whipping up mischief among the town's residents. From the unlucky in love,
die-hard romantic coffee shop owner Bradley (Academy Award® nominee Greg Kinnear)
who has a serial habit of looking for love in all the wrong places, including
with his current wife Kathryn (Selma Blair); to the edgy real estate agent Diana
(Radha Mitchell) who is caught up in an affair with a married man (Billy Burke)
with whom she shares an ineffable connection; to the beautiful young newcomer
Chloe (Alexa Davalos) who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar (Toby
Hemingway); to Harry himself, whose adoring wife (Jane Alexander) is looking to
break through his wall of grief after the wrenching loss of a beloved... they
all intertwine into one remarkable story in which no one can escape being bent,
broken, befuddled, delighted and ultimately redeemed by love's inescapable
spell.
EN 5 Second Review:
Pretty good although very chick flicky. We won't be
rushing the theatres, but to get out of trouble we would see it.
An
exquisite tapestry of interlocking love stories, some of which end
happily, some sadly, some farcically and one quite tragically.
Throughout all the shifting moods, no single narrative disrupts the
well-paced flow of the film as a coherent whole Andrew Saris: New York Observer
Robert Benton’s Feast of Love, from a screenplay by
Allison Burnett and based on the novel by Charles Baxter, serves
admirably as a playful respite from the Iraq-war-driven flood of media
violence that threatens to engulf us with a perpetual hangover of
hopeless paranoia...more
Feast
of Love, Robert Benton's bobos-in-love
ensemble drama, adapted from the Charles Baxter college-town
novel, is far too cloyingly pleased with its own humanity Owen Glieberman: EW
Greg Kinnear, as a Portland coffee-bar owner who loses his
wife (Selma Blair) to another woman, is the divorcé as
sad-eyed puppy, and Morgan Freeman, as a professor
recovering from the death of his son, lays on the
life-affirming pensées...more
EN 5 Second Review:
Pretty good although very chick flicky. We won't be
rushing the theatres, but to get out of trouble we would see it.
Feast
of Love, Robert Benton's bobos-