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
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09/30/07
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.
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
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
If my life was made into a film it would be this one. Long, boring, occasionally pretentious and completely uninvolving.
09/28/07
Feast of Love is just smart, sensitive and very good -- and at a time when "success" is measured by the size or scope of a project, that's enough to distinguish it from what it is not.
09/28/07
If it only shows how love fits into people's lives in our liberated present times, that's enough for one night.
09/28/07
It's nice to see these ideas played out by a fine -- and in several key roles, largely unfamiliar -- cast.
09/28/07
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.
09/28/07
Top CriticMultiple narratives are fluidly interwoven and the writing is often inspired, resulting in dialogue that feels honest and insightful, if occasionally mannered.
09/28/07
Top CriticDirector 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.
09/28/07
The Feast movie, while not as transcendent as the book, is still pretty good.
09/28/07
It's a worthy effort, even as it does fall short; a good meal but hardly a feast.
09/28/07
There's a people-are-good feeling permeating the film, which is difficult to resist.
09/28/07
The normally engaging Kinnear is so stymied by his synthetic and ill-conceived role it's painful to behold.
09/28/07
Whatever else you may say about Feast of Love, it delivers on the promise of its title.
09/28/07
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
It seems destined to find an indulgent second home as an unusually classy slot-plugger over at Lifetime.
09/28/07
What's promised to be a feast ends up as only a wan TV dinner.
09/28/07
You can see better stuff on TV any night of the week.
09/28/07
All the couples have palpable chemistry, and Kinnear and Freeman seem so convinced they're in a respectable movie that they actually make it one.
09/28/07
This Feast, though never completely uninteresting, leaves you hungry for enchantment.
09/28/07
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