Feast of Love, Robert Benton's bobos-in-love ensemble drama, adapted from the Charles Baxter college-town novel, is far too cloyingly pleased with its own humanity.
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09/26/07
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
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
Feast of Love is a feel-good movie for the semi-literati; as such it may grate on those too sophisticated for its smooth ways and easy answers.
09/26/07
For a film that purports to be an epic consideration of Love in Our Time, Feast is strikingly unthoughtful and uninterested in any but the most obvious kind of romantic love.
09/26/07
It's like Friends without the funny. Oh, wait -- that's redundant.
09/26/07
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
While things occasionally get a little soapy around the edges, the encroaching melodrama is masterfully held at bay by [Morgan] Freeman, whose scenes with [Jane] Alexander are exceptionally moving.
09/25/07
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 CriticBenton's sensitive helming and amiable cast headed by Morgan Freeman can't save the melodrama from tedium, resulting in a mediocre film that doesn't quite achieve its goal of examining love in all its various forms and complexities.
09/25/07
One of those rare cinematic treats that, for most of us, will go down easily and leave us with a sweet, mellow aftertaste.
09/25/07
"The Feast of Love" is a hodgepodge of sentimentality that's neither funny nor tragic. It's just bland.
09/24/07
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
09/23/07
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
A beautifully photographed look at a dozen people in Portland, Oregon who find that love is far from an unmixed blessing.
09/05/07
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