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Actors: Wendy Crewson, Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Marya Delver
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Better Than Chocolate |
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Two young lesbians, Maggie and Kim, meet in Vancouver, and hit it off from the beginning. After Kim's van, in which is is living out of, get towed away for being parked too long, Maggie alows Kim to move in with her. Maggies mother, Lila, and brother are supposed to be coming to stay the next day, but end up coming a day early! They come in at just the wrong time, almost catching Kim and Maggie in the shower. Luckily, they didn't get caught, and Lila doesn't suspect anything. After Maggie's friend Judy, a transsexual about to undergo her final surgery to become a full women, befriends Lila, Lila soon starts to find out more about her daughter and her group of friends.
--Lauren, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Better Than Chocolate |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- tranvestites/cutting off their weiners
- LESBIANS!!!!!!
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- red
Hair type
- (woman) long curly
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Canadian
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
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:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- use of artificial tools
- lesbians!
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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