A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Run Time
101 min
Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Rating Details
Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity and language.
Genre
Drama, Romance
Language
English
Keyword
Friend, Heartache, Grief, Affair, Dog
Movie Rating
Sound Mix
DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Colour
Color
Film Type
Feature
Film Class
Ensemble Film
Themes
Intersecting Lives, Mysterious Strangers
Tones
Easygoing, Quirky, Whimsical
Mood
Only Human
Has Detailed Data (New)
1, 2, 3, 7, 8
US Box Office
4000000
Release Date
28/09/2007
Country
USA
Country Of Origin
USA
Wikipedia Text
Feast of Love is a 2007 American drama film directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke and Selma Blair. The film, based on the 2000 novel The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter, was first released on September 28, 2007, in the United States.
Wikipedia Plot
The movie deals with love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Portland, Oregon. Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) narrates about how love can affect one's life.
[edit]Bradley
Bradley runs a small cafe in Portland. He has been married to his wife Kathryn for some time. However, their marriage becomes strained. Soon enough Kathryn begins a lesbian relationship with a woman, Jenny, she meets playing softball and leaves Bradley. The divorce affects Bradley greatly, but he soon finds love again in Diana, a realtor who also has a past with a married man named David. Though she ends her affair with David to marry Bradley they ultimately declare they are in love with each other and Diana leaves Bradley, again devastating him. Now twice divorced Bradley suffers a mini-breakdown and stabs himself in the hand. As he is getting stitched up in the hospital he falls for his doctor, Margaret. In the film's conclusion the two are revealed to marry.
[edit]Oscar & Chloe
Oscar is a young man working at Bradley's cafe who soon meets and falls in love with a girl named Chloe. However, Oscar is revealed to be living with his alcoholically abusive father, Bat. Their love endures as they decide to live together and even become engaged. At the wedding, Chloe reveals to Harry that she is pregnant, and plans to have another baby right after due to Harry's advice of having "two." When she visits a fortune teller, the psychic reveals Oscar will die. Though upset about the news Chloe soon forgets what the fortune tellers said. In the film's conclusion as everybody gathers for an afternoon in the park Oscar collapses, and despite attempts to get him to a hospital he dies of a heart defect due to the heavy traffic. Then Bat attempts to avenge his son's death by harming Chloe but Harry scares him off and asks if he and his wife Esther can adopt Chloe.
[edit]Diana & David
Diana is a successful realtor and has been carrying on an affair with the married David. Though she asks him numerous times to leave his wife, Karen, of 11 years he cannot bring himself to do it. Their relationship becomes even more volatile when Diana begins dating Bradley and falls in love with him. David persists he loves Diana, but unable to leave his wife, Diana marries Bradley and ends their affair. However, their love is later rekindled when Karen discovers her husband was cheating, leaving him. Free at last, David and Diana have an emotional confrontation in the park that ends with a kiss that Bradley sees, fueling their divorce and Bradley stabbing himself. In the film's conclusion Diana and David are shown as a public and functionally happy couple.
[edit]Harry & Esther
Harry and his wife Esther have been married a long time. Harry is a patron at Bradley's cafe and often provides the younger generation with advice on love. However, it is revealed that Harry and Esther are masking their own grief after the death of their adult son, Aaron. Harry reveals the nature of his son's death to Chloe, whom he and Esther grow very close to. Harry has also been struggling with the decision of going back to work as a Professor at a university. In the film's conclusion after Oscar's death he and Esther offer to adopt a now widowed and pregnant Chloe, who tearfully accepts their offer.
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