"Feast of Love"

OK guys, the movie I checked out this weekend, is pretty much the definition of “Chick Flick,” but have no fear, there is a little something in it for everybody. “Feast of Love” is a modern day story of several couples that meet, fall in, and out of love, suffer through hardships, and try to move on with life even with the pain that love causes.

Morgan Freeman has been a favorite actor of mine since I was child, and he played a main stay on the kids TV show “Electric Company.” If there is anyone out there besides me that remembers this show, then you may now officially consider yourself OLD! In this film Morgan plays College professor Harry Stevenson who witnesses this crazy thing called love every where goes. Being the teacher of young adults for many years, his eye has become very keen on seeing these things that most other people are simply blind to, some times even the very people that these things are happening to.

Greg Kinnear must be the most filmed un-known actor out there as far as I’m concerned. I barley recognize him from previous works, but I think he does a pretty good job with his character, Bradley Thomas, a coffee shop owner in the middle of down town Portland. He sees all kinds of people in and out of his coffee shop, and even has one of the main players in this movie “Oscar,” (Toby Hemingway) work in his coffee shop. Both Bradley, and Oscar meet and fall in love with people in his coffee shop. Harry, a frequent customer of Bradley’s shop, tries to give advice to both men, but some times people only hear what they want to hear, and of course this ends up with things going sour.

To make things worse for Bradley, he just happens to buy a house next door to Harry’s house, but what Bradley is unaware of is the so called curse that belongs to the house. The previous couples that move into the house, one after another for many years end up moving out of the house separately. Harry and his wife being witness to this supposed curse, tell Bradley about it, but just like other advice, he simply ignores it, and ends up paying the price.

There are many very well acted scenes in this movie, both happy, and un-happy. For many people watching the film, they will probably be moved in both ways remembering past experiences in their life. While none of the situations in this film may exactly mirror any one particular person’s experiences, the emotions dealt with are felt in a very real way. The pain of love gone wrong is something all of us have had to deal with, and all of us deal with this pain in different ways. This script runs the full gambit of how people deal with this pain. It brings to light certain ways that are not always healthy, be it physical, or emotional. While there is a very sad part to this movie towards the end which I will not spoil, the very end is good. Hollywood actually got an ending right for once, even if they had to go about it the hard and sad way.

My rating for this movie is 8.00