Feast of Love (2007)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 70
Though beautifully photographed, Feast of Love offers little beyond a trite, melodramatic character drama.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 15
Though beautifully photographed, Feast of Love offers little beyond a trite, melodramatic character drama.
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A group of friends living in suburban Oregon come into contact with a sensual free spirit named Chloe (Alexa Davalos), who changes their outlook on life in the most unexpected of ways in this ensemble drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by author Charles Baxter. As college professor and writer Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) sits quietly in the coffee shop of his tight-knit Oregon community, the local residents all around him all become swept up in the magical mischief of love. Coffee shop
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Morgan Freeman
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Greg Kinnear
Bradley Smith -
Radha Mitchell
Diana -
Billy Burke
David Watson -
Selma Blair
Kathryn -
Alexa Davalos
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Toby Hemingway
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Stana Katic
Jenny -
Jane Alexander
Esther -
Fred Ward
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All Critics (115) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (73) | DVD (9)
A would-be-wistful dramedy that's almost insufferably full of itself.
Top CriticIt's episodic and I'd say I liked about 60 percent of it and about 40 percent of it I could leave, but it's just enough for me to say it's worth seeing.
At one point he tells a love-struck friend, 'I think I'd proceed with caution.' I'd proceed just as cautiously to the movie.
Multiple narratives are fluidly interwoven and the writing is often inspired, resulting in dialogue that feels honest and insightful, if occasionally mannered.
Director Robert Benton finds an emotional through line in a format that might have easily broken down into a series of disconnected anecdotes with little to nourish us.
It's a worthy effort, even as it does fall short; a good meal but hardly a feast.
There's only so much Freeman's gorgeous voiceover can do to hold it all together.
A ruthlessly winsome movie
Only the romance of two brittle twentysomethings (Toby Hemingway and Alexa Davalos) breaks free of the faux profundity and tedium that swallow up this feast whenever the characters leave the bedroom.
Feast of Love is a multi-layered -- layers of baloney -- tale of pursuit of love.
Let Google point you to this movie's finer moments, and leave the rest. It's really that bad.
An overwhelming, yet boring mess.
it was definitely an interesting movie that caught my attention more than I ever expected it would
Feast of Love is the kind of movie that gets conveniently omitted from résumés.
Thanks to his excellent cast, and a very light touch, Benton makes these tangled relationships both real and touching.
The majority of the film is filled with arguing, betrayal and fear with a twinge of hope.
A disarmingly moving film about love, relationships and secret lives.
Feast of Love will fill you up with trite dialogue and sappy plot contrivances.
Salvaged from a tendency towards self-indulgent, far too self-conscious sentimentality, by a graceful literary elegance and sensitively shaped, meditative flow. A feast for the mind and soul.
Salvaged from a tendency towards self-indulgent, far too self-conscious sentimentality, by a graceful literary elegance and sensitively shaped, meditative flow. A feast for the mind and soul.
Feast of Love didn't make me toss my cookies, but it came close a time or two.
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