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Actors: Nelly Alard, Lisa Blake Richards, Frances Bergen, Mary Crosby, Gwen Welles, Marlena Giovi
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Eating |
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About three dozen women gather at a suburban Los Angeles home to celebrate the birthdays of Helene (Richards), turning 40; Kate (Crosby), 30; and Sadie (Giovi), 50. When the cake is served, no one will touch it, save Helene's mother, classy Whitney (Bergen). A French goddess, Martine (Alard), pretends to be a filmmaker shooting a film about "Southern California behavior," but it turns out she is really studying women and their relations with food. (Martine herself is a recovering anorexic.) Men exert a powerful offstage presence -- Helene learns her husband is having an affair, Sadie fears her younger boyfriend is interested in her daughter -- but this 1990 film, much of it improvised by the actresses from their own experiences, is a somewhat exhausting and one-dimensional marathon portrait of women and their obsession with food and their figures.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Woman/class/friends story?
- women's (plural) story
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Unclothed?
- Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 60's-90's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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