What's supposed to be a meditation on love plays out as a mere exercise in titillation. And that's not much of a feast. More like an hors d'oeuvre.
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09/28/07
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
This one will sneak up on you.
09/28/07
Never feels much more than a softly-lit, meandering, slightly senile made-for-cable television movie.
09/28/07
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 CriticA bit too involved and convenient at times, but still classy and heartfelt all the way.
09/28/07
Feast of Love the movie is less specific than The Feast of Love the book, but it has its heart in the right place -- that longing place.
09/28/07
Top CriticBenton has made better movies about doomed marriages (Kramer vs. Kramer), but this one has no organic reality.
09/28/07
Top CriticThis heart-warmer by Robert Benton has some of the tender wisdom and humor of his other features.
09/28/07
Top CriticDirector Robert Benton and writer Allison Burnett don't give us time to breathe. Characters meet, fall in love and set out on condensed journeys of self-discovery at top speed, as if their lives consisted entirely of momentous events.
09/28/07
Feast of Love is bathed in the dark wood and lengthening shadows of a serious movie, but it ultimately can’t reconcile its humanism with its fatalism.
09/28/07
Feast of Love is [Benton's] easiest movie to like since 1994's Nobody's Fool, and it's immediately homey.
09/28/07
Top CriticDirector Robert Benton's film is a rushed and ludicrous amorous mash up.
09/28/07
Although Feast is sometimes depressing, a natural side effect when touching on issues such as infidelity and death, it is also uplifting and tender.
09/28/07
There's an occasional scene that works -- a funny sequence where Bradley bargains for his dog with a kid -- but as the movie progresses, the melodrama is piled on with a bulldozer.
09/28/07
Top CriticPlaying a canny old papa bear dispensing nuggets of advice to a flock of unruly cubs in Feast of Love Morgan Freeman has a role he could act in his sleep.
09/28/07
Top CriticAs a meditation on the vicissitudes of love, on the need for people to connect, and the struggles that come by both making and missing those connections, the movie is wading-pool deep.
09/28/07
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
A rare bird in the world of mainstream movies. It's thoughtful and literate enough to make it seem positively original.
09/27/07
This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie-of-the-week.
09/27/07
[It]turns out to be a mess, and not one... where you enjoy a film despite its problems, but rather one where the problems keep getting in the way of your enjoying it at all.
09/27/07
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