Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 19
Fast Food, Fast Women tries too hard to be kooky and charming.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 8
Fast Food, Fast Women tries too hard to be kooky and charming.
liked it
Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 1,376
Amos Kollek directs this quiet, understated comedy about lonely hearts and empty pockets in New York. Pushing 40, Bella (Anna Thomson) works as a waitress at small downtown diner in Manhattan. Her elderly regulars include Paul (Robert Modica), a lovelorn retiree who scours the personal ads and his ill-tempered buddies Seymour (Victor Argo) and Graham (Mark Margolis), who are more than a little disparaging toward Paul's attempts at finding love. Involved in a 12-year relationship with married
May 11, 2001 Wide
Nov 19, 2002
Lot 47 Films
All Critics (44) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (19) | DVD (3)
Nothing runs very deep, or very diverting ... in this overplayed, underwritten slice of (love-)life.
Tries hard to be charming, but succeeds only occasionally.
An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.
Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.
Naive as Kollek's writing is, there's something winning about his sympathy with out-of-step characters.
An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense and represents a wholly unanticipated advance on the part of Kollek.
Audience-insulting. Our heroine has faced no difficulty, learned nothing, earned nothing, but she has a lovely fairy-tale ending that's supposed to make us leave the theater happy.
Despite some lovely moments ... Fast Food Fast Women operates like a sitcom.
Just a vain attempt at making a movie about the perils of romance in the modern age.
... quirky, idiosyncratic and not for general consumption ...
There is warmth and empathy at the core of this movie that can overcome everything about it that's frustrating.
This movie's goofy charm won me over by the time it ended.
I think that this movie was fun, honest, flawed, and atypical. I thought Anna Thompson was delightful and sexy.
December 29, 2009
(**): An okay cast but more work on the screenplay was needed.
September 21, 2008
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