Moviegoers beware: nausea is a prime side effect of consuming Feast of Love, an extraordinarily inane multi-character saga about the complexities of love from Robert Benton
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09/23/07
Feast of Love (2007)
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Reviews Counted:111
Fresh:45
Rotten:66
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Though beautifully photographed, Feast of Love offers little beyond a trite, melodramatic character drama.
Theatrical Release:Sep 28, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $3,434,730
Synopsis: Love is the star of this film from director Robert Benton (KRAMER VS. KRAMER, THE HUMAN STAIN). Bradley (Greg Kinnear) believes in the power and beauty of true love. He's good at falling in... [More]
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke
Director: Robert Benton
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Reviews for Feast of Love
It's nice to see these ideas played out by a fine -- and in several key roles, largely unfamiliar -- cast.
09/28/07
It’s a pretty, occasionally witty love-fest, with a surprising amount of flesh on display. But its increasingly mawkish tone means it’s for softies only.
10/05/07
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10/06/07
Feast of Love is the kind of movie that gets conveniently omitted from résumés.
05/01/08
sacrifices any originality or piquancy to the safety of the familiar rendered with an uncertain narrative that in the end is truly, madly, deeply unsatisfying
09/30/07
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.
09/26/07
Top CriticIt's sentimental stuff, but amusing in places.
10/05/07
Swinging from mildly irritating to rather enjoyable, the film eventually settles at merely watchable.
10/19/07
If Feast of Love was indeed a food, it would be a purposeless pan pizza decorated with every topping on the melodrama menu and extra schmaltz inserted into the talky, twice baked crust.
09/28/07
This cornucopia of foibles, with its penny portraits of treachery and innocence amounts to little more than high-class soap opera.
09/27/07
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10/18/08
The love feasted upon in this film is not about commitment or selflessness. No, the love in this Feast is very fickle and selfish.
09/29/07
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10/20/07
There's something endearing in the way Benton assumes a little full-frontal is enough to erase the bile that develops watching this agonizing marathon of navel-gazing.
09/27/07
Director Robert Benton and screenwriter Allison Burnett tell a sobering, adult-geared tale of love's highs, lows and maddening twists and turns.
09/28/07
Top CriticContemplates the bodies of beautiful young people in order that it may more fully appreciate the predicament old people find themselves in.
09/27/07
The script weaves three interlocking stories in unlikely ways and relies on random acts of violence, fate and God for dramatic complications that the characters aren't fleshed-out enough to whip up on their own.
09/27/07
Top CriticThe Feast movie, while not as transcendent as the book, is still pretty good.
09/28/07
For a film that tries to be a smarter, more cerebral, romantic comedy-drama, Feast of Love sure does a lot of dumb things.
09/27/07
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