Cake Eaters [Blu-ray]

I cannot recommend this movie.I don't understand the title of this movie. No one in the entire movie ever ate any cake. We never even saw any cake.The title does not make sense, and the Amazon description is false.Kristen Stewart looked beautiful with long hair (of course, a wig), and when her character of Georgia cut her hair super-short, it looked terrible.This movie was boring and slow. The movie was all over the place. There was the main plot, about Georgia. There were a few very small sub-plots. This didn't even feel like even a TV movie, it felt like a play-on-film. The ending was abrupt, leaving the feeling of, "That's all? That's the end?"S P O I L E R S……The Amazon description is not correct - - this is absolutely not a story of first love, or falling in love, or a "celebration" of love. It is a story of an ill and disabled 15 year old who wants to lose her virginity because she is afraid that she will die before she gets the chance. She throws herself at the first "boy" - - a 20-something loser named Beagle - - who looks at her. She asks him to come to her house within a few minutes of meeting him, and he actually asks why. She asks him up to her bedroom to "study" and within a few minutes, she grabs him and kisses him, and they make out on her bed until her mother yells from downstairs that it is getting late. She makes a plan with him for a "date" the next day. He picks her up for their "date" on his motorcycle, and when he asks her where they are going, she tells him to take her to a motel. They check into the motel, and she immediately starts undressing and tells him to take a shower. She comments on how he obviously never works out, and it is clear that she is disappointed with his looks and is not attracted to him. He asks her if, instead of sex, they can just watch TV and talk, and she says no and says that she will just leave the motel if he won't have sex with her. So, he walks out, leaving her alone in the motel, and then he shortly returns, and they just have sex. They fall asleep. They wake up in the morning, and they get on his motorcycle, and he takes her to school. There is no goodbye kiss. Would anyone call this love?????There is a sub-plot about Georgia's grandmother and Beagle's father (whose wife recently died), who have been having a secret affair for many years, and he asks her to marry him (without any ring), and she never answers.There is a sub-plot about Beagle's brother, who is a failing musician, who has been gone and out-of-touch from everyone for three years, and shows up out of nowhere to find out that his mother has died and he didn't even know. He goes to see his girlfriend whom he has had no contact with for those three years, whom he had proposed to just before he left town and then left her without even saying goodbye, and she is shown with a little girl whom we can assume is his child which he never knew about.There are sub-plots about the butcher business where a cow is slaughtered, and Georgia's mother's art business.My reviews usually don't summarize a movie, but there is nothing else to say because nothing else happens and there is nothing else to talk about. The actors did a very good job with what they had to work with. I did not see any comedy here… there was some drama, but nothing to tear up over... and a lot of unhappy characters without hope who seemed to be just surviving rather than living their lives.

This is an emotional story about human love in a rural American setting. As such it will probably bring tears to your eyes. I know it did to mine. The script by Jayce Bartok and the direction by Mary Stuart Masterson are carefully composed to create a celebration of love that defies convention.BEWARE SPOILERSGeorgia (Kristen Stewart) is a 15-year-old girl suffering from Friedreich's ataxia. When her to-be lover, cafeteria worker Beagle (Aaron Stanford), asks if she is going to get better, Georgia says, “No, this is pretty much as good as it's gonna get until my heart gives out.” She has invited him into her bedroom to help her with her homework. At one point she says, “You can kiss me if you want to.” Stewart plays the part with limbs all askew and dangling almost helplessly. Yet her face is so, so pretty and healthy looking that the contrast is striking. The next day they go to a motel. She is determined to experience love before she dies. The idea is so touching.Also sure to pull your heart strings is the older and mostly secret love affair between Easy Kimbrough (Bruce Dern) and Marg Kaminski (Elizabeth Ashley). Bittersweet is Guy Kimbrough’s (Jayce Bartok) realization that his girlfriend Stephanie (Miriam Shor) has married and started a family in his absence.All of this could easily go from pathos to bathos to the maudlin except for the careful direction by Masterson and the fine acting all around.What I have been trying to figure out is why the movie is entitled “The Cake Eaters.” What came to mind was Marie Antoinette’s infamous, “Let them eat cake,” but I couldn’t see the connection. --Dennis Littrell, author of the movie review book “Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can’t Believe I Swallowed the Remote”

As a teen who suffers from many chronic illness' that keep me in a wheelchair, as soon as I read that this movie was about chronic illness, I instantly clicked on it. There were a few things that I found were pretty inaccurate or just like that I didn't agree with. Georgia clearly needed a wheelchair and I find that most kids/teens with chronic illness gladly welcome things into their life that will make things easier for them. I remember being stubborn about my wheelchair when my pain first got bad and it got to the point where now I can't walk more than a mile at a time max. I love Kristen Stewart so much and I miss her staring in movies so this really fueled my love for her today! I think that she did very well at portraying the issues that some of us have to face, like dying young and wanting to do things before that happens. I also think that this movie illustrates the love from an able bodied person to a disabled person to show that this does in fact happen. I most of the time feel like no one is ever going to fall in love with me and be with me purely because I am medically (&emotionally) high maintenance. It was really beautiful and exciting to see that kind of mixed bodied relationship in a movie like I never have before. Now I did say all these nice things, however I feel like the plot didn't really go anywhere and that it wasn't exciting enough to every watch it again. Would I recommend to everyone? no. Would I recommend to my disabled friends? Yes!!

This sensitive film, Cake Eaters, the directorial debut of Mary Stuart Masterson, is a gently told story of disability and how it affects families and individuals. A young teenage girl with a degenrative disease, wants to experience all life has to offer and has the normal feelings and emotions of any teenage girl. This is the story of how she takes control of her awakening sexuality, and makes a stand for her own independence, and the effect it has on those around her.There are many fine performances in this well crafted film but that of Kristin Stewart stands out, and she is truly remarkable. I cannot recommend this film highly enough, funny, sad, quite often disturbing and sometimes very hard to watch, yet it fills ones heart with hope and a real belief in how indomitable human spirit can be.

This film surprised and amazed me, it is very moving and yes it did reduce me to tears in some places, probably some of the very best acting that I have ever seen particularly Kristen Stewart's portrayal of the disabled lead character.I have never seen such a moving perfectly balanced depiction of a disabled person by an able bodied actor Kristen Stewart is definitely an actor worth watching in my opinion.Well written, sensitively directed and superbly acted this film is definitely worth watching and is a fine addition to my permanent collection.

A quiet film yet one that grows into itself much like a good wine. Kristen Stewart clearly demonstrates that she can act. Her performance shows depth, sensitivity and thoughtfulness in her portrayal of a teenager with a wasting disease and her need to experience as much of life as possible. Stewart's representation is the strength of the film which may have lacked that effectual resonance if she had not brought her usual and professional earnestness to this pivotal role.

This movie was okay but it wasn't really what I expected. If I'm honest I did get a little bit bored. One good thing however was Kristen Stewart's performance, It was very well done. As she is one of my favourite actresses there is nothing I like better than watching her have so many persona's.If you like to know how to live when you are dying please watch. And anyone who has a love for living will like this film too.

I really enjoyed watching this film, yeah sure it isn't an A-list movie or even a B-list but it is brilliant for what it is. It has a great story line and an amazing cast, i wasn't sure about buying this because it had Kirsten Stewart in it and her acting in the Twilight saga was average at best but she really shined in this and i take back everything i said about her acting abillites. Great little film i would seriously recomend watching it.