Thanks to his excellent cast, and a very light touch, Benton makes these tangled relationships both real and touching.
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03/19/08
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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Feb 28, 2008 Wide
US 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
Reviews for Feast of Love
Top CriticA disarmingly moving film about love, relationships and secret lives.
02/21/08
Top CriticIf my life was made into a film it would be this one. Long, boring, occasionally pretentious and completely uninvolving.
09/28/07
No director alive can make family melodramas as brilliantly as Douglas Sirk once did, but I'd suggest that Robert Benton comes the closest.
09/27/07
If Raymond Carver had ever filed a last story collection from the Sunny Valley Lobotomy Clinic, it would be just like this.
10/05/07
What Feast of Love lacks in nutritive value it makes up for with heaping wads of artificial sweeteners.
10/13/07
The majority of the film is filled with arguing, betrayal and fear with a twinge of hope.
03/03/08
The screenplay combines philosophy, melodrama, and clichés to engaging effect.
09/27/07
If it's a choice between cleaning out the shed and seeing this - opt for the shed.
10/05/07
Top CriticKinnear delivers the goods
09/27/07
Sprawling, messy, yet occasionally affecting.
09/26/07
A positively enchanting romantic drama adapted from a novel by Charles Baxter that speaks volumes about love and challenges us all to grow a bigger heart.
09/14/07
It feels more like the pilot for a cable series than an actual movie. (In fact, the nicest thing you can say about Feast Of Love is there's a ton of nudity.)
09/26/07
This one will sneak up on you.
09/28/07
Nice to look at, but about as weighty as the froth atop a tall skim latte.
10/20/07
it was definitely an interesting movie that caught my attention more than I ever expected it would
08/17/08
Given the potentially unwieldy nature of the enterprise, [director] Benton juggles the multiple narratives with considerable grace, and succeeds in creating a warm (if somewhat improbable) sense of community among the principal characters.
09/25/07
Top Criticsacrifices 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
Fans of this year's glorious Irish film, Once, will have a whole new perspective on the beautiful 'Falling Slowly' with the girls of Riddick flaunting their fabulous breasts at every opportunity.
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
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