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Fast Food, Fast Women (2001)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:6
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Fast Food, Fast Women tries too hard to be kooky and charming.
Theatrical Release:May 18, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: Writer-director Amos Kollek (SUE) tackles the neurotic, fragile, fast-paced world of New York City in FAST FOOD, FAST WOMEN, a bittersweet comedy that shows just how difficult it is to find love in... Writer-director Amos Kollek (SUE) tackles the neurotic, fragile, fast-paced world of New York City in FAST FOOD, FAST WOMEN, a bittersweet comedy that shows just how difficult it is to find love in modern times. The revolving story focuses on Bella (Anna Thomson), a waitress who is on the verge of her thirty-fifth birthday and trapped in a winless affair with a popular Broadway producer. Her mother sets her up with Bruno (Jamie Harris), an unpublished writer who is forced to drive a cab in order to support his newly inherited two children. Also thrown into the mix are Paul (Robert Modica), a sensitive middle-aged man who finds himself falling in love with the simple, kind Emily (Louise Lasser), and Seymour (Victor Argo), Paul's friend who has become infatuated with Wanda (Valerie Geffner), a beautiful, educated exotic dancer. In trying to outthink their situations and make sure everything proceeds smoothly this time around, the characters react against their better judgments, shooting themselves in the foot in the process, which threatens to ruin the fairytale ending that everyone so desperately wants. Kollek's film is an entertaining, though at times excruciatingly painful, viewing experience, due to the honest but misguided actions of its characters. [More]
Starring: Anna Thompson, Jamie Harris, Victor Argo, Louise Lasser
Starring: Anna Thompson, Jamie Harris, Victor Argo, Louise Lasser, Robert Modica, Austin Pendleton, Anna Levine, Salem Ludwig, Mark Margolis, Lonette McKee
Director: Amos Kollek
Director: Amos Kollek
Screenwriter: Amos Kollek
Studio: Lot 47 Films
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Reviews for Fast Food, Fast Women
Nothing runs very deep, or very diverting ... in this overplayed, underwritten slice of (love-)life.
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.
Despite a script that occasionally calls for some embarrassingly awkward lines, Kollek's cast generally acquits itself well.
There's nothing wrong with Fast Food Fast Women that a casting director and a rewrite couldn't have fixed.
The filmmaker's enthusiasm for addressing diverse people's needs for both companionship and sexual gratification is admirable, but movies aren't just about notions.
Kollek is a fringe auteur who makes independent films the old fashioned way: no budget, static camera, a script that telegraphs its tiny, paste gem ironies.
Kollek's droll humor relieves most of the cloyingly familiar aspects of this wish-fulfillment phantasmagoria.
Almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another.
There's much pleasure to be had in watching these gifted and highly individual actors groaning over their fate as they tentatively set about love's first fumblings.
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