Feast of Love
| Feast of Love | |
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| Directed by | Robert Benton |
| Produced by | Gary Lucchesi |
| Written by |
Allison Burnett Charles Baxter |
| Starring |
Morgan Freeman Greg Kinnear Radha Mitchell Selma Blair Toby Hemingway Stana Katic and Fred Ward |
| Music by | Stephen Trask |
| Cinematography | Kramer Morgenthau |
| Edited by | Andrew Mondshein |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Release date
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September 27, 2007 |
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Running time
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,741,608 |
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.
The movie deals with love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Portland, Oregon. Harry Stevenson provides narration about how love can affect one's life.
Bradley runs a small cafe in Portland. He has been married to his wife Kathryn for 6+ years. However, their marriage becomes strained. Soon enough Kathryn begins a lesbian relationship with a woman, Jenny, whom 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, Margit. In the film's conclusion the two are revealed to marry.
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. When Chloe visits a fortune-teller, she is told that Oscar will die. Chloe, though upset at first, straightens her resolve about her love for Oscar and their future together. Coming home, she urges Oscar to get married to her immediately. 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." In the film's conclusion everybody gathers for an afternoon in the park. While playing football, Oscar collapses; despite an attempt to get him to a hospital, congested traffic interferes, and he dies of a heart defect. Bat attempts to avenge his son's death by harming Chloe but Harry scares him off, and then asks Chloe if he and his wife Esther can 'adopt' her as their own.
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