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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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexuality/nudity and language

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

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 Her mother sets her up with Bruno (Jamie Harris), an unpublished writer who is forced to drive a cab in order to support his newly inherited two children.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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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
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Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Nothing runs very deep, or very diverting ... in this overplayed, underwritten slice of (love-)life.

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07/12/01
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Tries hard to be charming, but succeeds only occasionally.

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07/06/01
Curt Fields
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Washington Post
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An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.

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07/06/01
Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.

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06/29/01
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Naive as Kollek's writing is, there's something winning about his sympathy with out-of-step characters.

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06/29/01
Jay Carr
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Boston Globe
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An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense and represents a wholly unanticipated advance on the part of Kollek.

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06/22/01
Kevin Thomas
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Los Angeles Times
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Despite a script that occasionally calls for some embarrassingly awkward lines, Kollek's cast generally acquits itself well.

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06/19/01
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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There's nothing wrong with Fast Food Fast Women that a casting director and a rewrite couldn't have fixed.

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06/08/01
Roger Ebert
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Chicago Sun-Times
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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.

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06/07/01
Mark Caro
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune
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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.

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06/01/01
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Kollek's droll humor relieves most of the cloyingly familiar aspects of this wish-fulfillment phantasmagoria.

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05/21/01
Gene Seymour
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Newsday
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Almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another.

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05/18/01
Elvis Mitchell
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New York Times
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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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05/16/01
Leslie Camhi
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Village Voice
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A delightfully irreverent romantic comedy.

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