Morgan Freeman, Jane Alexander, Greg Kinnear

Directed by Oscar winner Robert Benton ("Kramer vs. Kramer"), the story is based on a Charles Baxter novel and revolves around a community of friends in Oregon who navigate the sometimes painful incar...( read more  read more... )nations of love.

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R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Robert Benton

Release Date: September 28, 2007

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  • March 12, 2009
    What a sweet sweet story. This was an amazing tale of peoples life intertwining with each other in the most complex ways. Love, happiness, death, misery. All that goes hand in hand in life, unfortunately. The cast was incredible and I was so sucked into the movie that I almost ra...( read more)n late for work. I loved this movie and everyone should enjoy this!
  • January 17, 2009
    Morgan Freeman had a great role but the rest was pretty weak. A weak story is no doubt hard to act decently but I just found everyone to be totally wishy washy
  • June 19, 2008
    Esther Stevenson: "How was your walk? Did I miss anything?
    Harry Stevenson: A cool breeze, a softball game, and two women falling in love.
    Esther Stevenson: With each other?
    Harry Stevenson: And one of them's married. The funny thing is, no one noticed. Not even the husband...( read more), two feet away.
    Esther Stevenson: I'm sorry I missed that.
    Harry Stevenson: I imagine he will be too."


    Feast of Love revolves around Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby), a damaged university professor spending a good deal of his leave of absence hanging out at a small Portland coffee shop run by his good friend Bradley (Greg Kinnear, As Good As It Gets). Harry's remarkably perceptive: he can see Bradley's marriage falling apart long before it happens, just as he can see Cupid's arrow strike Bradley's sole employee Oscar (Toby Hemingway, The Covenant) in the ass the moment Chloe (Alexa Davalos, The Chronicles of Riddick) walks in the door. But all of his insight into others might just be to void looking at himself. Added to the mix of lovestruck adventurers are Bradley's sexually awakened wife Kathryn (Selma Blair, Hellboy), a wealthy real estate agent (Radha Mitchell, Silent Hill) and her married lover (Billy Burke, Ladder 49), and Oscar's alcoholic?and psychotic?father (Fred Ward, Tremors). Much coupling, uncoupling, and recoupling ensues. Feast of Love pulls off an impressive balancing act of stretching realism for the sake of telling a good tale while never losing its sense of grounding. Feast of Love strives for, and more often than not achieves, emotional truth, and with that goal in mind such things as realistic timeframes give way to unlikely coincidences, yet we never stop buying into the story. Kinnear's Bradley is the heart of the film. The character could have easily been turned into a joke but with Kinnear in the role Bradley, despite all the tribulations heaped upon him, he becomes the film's tower of strength and its emotional compass. Kinnear's glance conveys a world of love lost and love gained. The film does start off with the well-worn cliché about the gods inventing love for their amusement, but at least the people here learn that life, for all its heartbreak and pain, is short and love can fulfill their very human needs.
  • June 18, 2008
    Not a gourmet meal, but tastefully prepared and pleasant enough to satisfy an appetite for a heartfelt drama. "The unexpected is always upon us.........and so we begin again." Recommended.
  • April 1, 2008
    The sweet naked body of Erika Marozsán in Gloomy Sunday once made me vow to save up money for a trip to Hungary to ask for her hand. Sadly, I have waited 10 years for a movie this mediocre, didactic and pointless to be her first Hollywood foray, and also I have found someo...( read more)ne else.
  • November 6, 2009
    Sono un'inguaribile amante degli happy endings.
  • October 29, 2009
    I hated it. And i must say i don't have any reason for
  • October 20, 2009
    a fallen world of love. the very ending is great, but it's okay to skip this one.
  • October 17, 2009
    A pretty ok sappy chick flick.
    People love the sound of Morgan Freemans voice as he does yet another role as the narrator. I'm not complaining though he is good at it
  • October 4, 2009
    A bit more drama than I thought of, but in the end also very insightful and true.

Critic Reviews


October 5, 2007
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times

If Raymond Carver had ever filed a last story collection from the Sunny Valley Lobotomy Clinic, it would be just like this. full review

September 28, 2007
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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. full review

September 28, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Multiple narratives are fluidly interwoven and the writing is often inspired, resulting in dialogue that feels honest and insightful, if occasionally mannered. full review

September 28, 2007
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

It's a worthy effort, even as it does fall short; a good meal but hardly a feast. full review

September 28, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Benton has made better movies about doomed marriages (Kramer vs. Kramer), but this one has no organic reality. full review

September 28, 2007
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

There's an occasional scene that works -- a funny sequence where Bradley bargains for his dog with a kid -- but as the movie progresses, the melodrama is piled on with a bulldozer. full review

September 28, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

As a meditation on the vicissitudes of love, on the need for people to connect, and the struggles that come by both making and missing those connections, the movie is wading-pool deep. full review

September 27, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim

A rare bird in the world of mainstream movies. It's thoughtful and literate enough to make it seem positively original. full review

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