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Feast of Love (2007)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Sep 26, 2007

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: Sep 28, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 102 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Romance; With: Selma Blair and Morgan Freeman

Image credit: Peter Sore

LOST LOVE Morgan Freeman tries to help Greg Kinnear through a painful divorce in the paltry ensemble drama Feast

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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. Greg Kinnear, as a Portland coffee-bar owner who loses his wife (Selma Blair) to another woman, is the divorcé as sad-eyed puppy, and Morgan Freeman, as a professor recovering from the death of his son, lays on the life-affirming pensées. Radha Mitchell, playing a real estate agent trapped in a sordid affair, has vibrance, but the film wastes no time reducing her to another soddenly ''innocent'' romantic. C

Originally posted Sep 26, 2007 Published in issue #957 Oct 05, 2007 Order article reprints

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