Fast Food Fast Women (2000)

47% of critics liked it
(36 reviews)
61% of users liked it
(1,385 ratings)

Amos Kollek directs this quiet, understated comedy about lonely hearts and empty pockets in New York. Pushing 40, Bella (Anna Thomson) works as a waitress at small downtown diner in Manhattan. Her elderly regulars include Paul (Robert Modica), a lovelorn retiree who scours the personal ads and his… More Amos Kollek directs this quiet, understated comedy about lonely hearts and empty pockets in New York. Pushing 40, Bella (Anna Thomson) works as a waitress at small downtown diner in Manhattan. Her elderly regulars include Paul (Robert Modica), a lovelorn retiree who scours the personal ads and his ill-tempered buddies Seymour (Victor Argo) and Graham (Mark Margolis), who are more than a little disparaging toward Paul's attempts at finding love. Involved in a 12-year relationship with married Broadway theater director George (Austin Pendleton), Bella craves marriage and children. On a blind date set up by her mother, Bella meets Bruno, a divorced cabbie and fledgling novelist with two young children. Meanwhile, Paul meets ready-and-willing widow Emily (Louise Lasser), while Seymour shacks up with Wanda (Valerie Geffner), a stripper with a master's degree. This film was shown in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By: Amos Kollek
Written By: Amos Kollek
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: May 11, 2001 Wide
On DVD: Nov 19, 2002
Studio: Lot 47 Films

Critic Reviews

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Nothing runs very deep, or very diverting ... in this overplayed, underwritten slice of (love-)life.
Curt Fields, Washington Post
Tries hard to be charming, but succeeds only occasionally.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.
Jay Carr, Boston Globe
Naive as Kollek's writing is, there's something winning about his sympathy with out-of-step characters.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense and represents a wholly unanticipated advance on the part of Kollek.
Joshua Tanzer, Offoffoff
Audience-insulting. Our heroine has faced no difficulty, learned nothing, earned nothing, but she has a lovely fairy-tale ending that's supposed to make us leave the theater happy.
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
Despite some lovely moments ... Fast Food Fast Women operates like a sitcom.
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
Just a vain attempt at making a movie about the perils of romance in the modern age.
Ted Murphy, Baseline.Hollywood.com
... quirky, idiosyncratic and not for general consumption ...
Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWire
There is warmth and empathy at the core of this movie that can overcome everything about it that's frustrating.
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
This movie's goofy charm won me over by the time it ended.
Pam Grady, Reel.com
This small romantic comedy should be applauded for its pleasures.