The Cake Eaters
by Mary Stuart Masterson
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Actor: Aaron Stanford, Bruce Dern, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayce Bartok, Kristen StewartDirector: Mary Stuart Masterson
Brand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-03-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 68109120
Studio: Screen Media
Product features:
- CAKE EATERS, THE (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of The Cake Eaters
DVD Review: Difficult subject, conflicting content
Summary: 3 Stars
Georgia (Kristen Stewart) is a 16 year old girl afflicted with Friedreich's Ataxia, a debilitating disease that often attacks first in the motor movements, gait, and speech. Those hoping this would severely limit Stewart's speaking role might be pleased to learn that her lines are appropriately diminished. I think of her as a female version of Keanu Reeves, someone who should be seen much more than heard. Nonetheless, she's disabled but still mentally aware, and she has recently become interested in boys and the idea of sex.
For those who have skimmed reviews and read things about a disabled teen having sex with a beagle, have no fears. This is not that kind of movie. It's really Beagle (Aaron Stanford), the nickname for a young man named Dwight Kimbrough who works at Georgia's high school cafeteria and has just suffered the loss of his mother. The two begin an odd romance, seeking to fulfill her intercourse desire and fill his emotional void. Along the way she gets an atrociously ugly haircut for which her stylist should have been lynched, septuagenarian relatives potentially allow themselves to be accomplices to statutory rape, a prodigal son returns in a subplot more pointless than a white crayon, and the special ed. Juliet gets whisked away on her white knight's horse. Except by "whisked away" I mean "strapped to the driver by a bungee chord," and by horse I mean "beat up moped." Everything eventually, and awkwardly, comes full circle for Beagle's family as well. Beagle's father proclaims love to the woman with whom he's been infidelitous while his terminally ill wife dwindled away. The pointless brother finds resolution at his mother's grave. Beagle celebrates his awkward and probably illegal entry into manhood, dropping Georgia off at school to see her walk away like a cowgirl (because of the affliction, not Beagle's undoubtedly pedestrian efforts). Which brings me to a point: If the sexes in this movie were reversed, the reviews and position would not be the same. There would be countless people claiming that a rape had taken place, and that this movie glorifies perversion.
There's definite humanity here, but there are too many unbelievable scenes and misplaced emotion for the entirety to ring true. I admit that the subject matter is difficult, and the disabled shouldn't be treated like second class citizens. I also note, however, that she couldn't possibly care for an accident, and her pregnancy would certainly add an unnecessary burden to society. Aside from perhaps Georgia herself, each and every character has a serious flaw that made them unlikeable to me. Some detestable. Maybe that's the point. Maybe the humanity is that Georgia hasn't been tainted like the others, and her wishes are not that misguided or different than the rest of us. Maybe, in some ways she's better (but probably not at acting).
Jason Elin
Description of The Cake Eaters
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 03/24/2009 Run time: 86 minutes Rating: RBestsellers in DVD
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