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Fast Food, Fast Women (2001)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:17
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Fast Food, Fast Women tries too hard to be kooky and charming.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Writer-director Amos Kollek (SUE) tackles the neurotic, fragile, fast-paced world of New York City in FAST FOOD, FAST WOMEN, a bittersweet comedy that shows just how difficult it is to find love in... Writer-director Amos Kollek (SUE) tackles the neurotic, fragile, fast-paced world of New York City in FAST FOOD, FAST WOMEN, a bittersweet comedy that shows just how difficult it is to find love in modern times. The revolving story focuses on Bella (Anna Thomson), a waitress who is on the verge of her thirty-fifth birthday and trapped in a winless affair with a popular Broadway producer. Her mother sets her up with Bruno (Jamie Harris), an unpublished writer who is forced to drive a cab in order to support his newly inherited two children. Also thrown into the mix are Paul (Robert Modica), a sensitive middle-aged man who finds himself falling in love with the simple, kind Emily (Louise Lasser), and Seymour (Victor Argo), Paul's friend who has become infatuated with Wanda (Valerie Geffner), a beautiful, educated exotic dancer. In trying to outthink their situations and make sure everything proceeds smoothly this time around, the characters react against their better judgments, shooting themselves in the foot in the process, which threatens to ruin the fairytale ending that everyone so desperately wants. Kollek's film is an entertaining, though at times excruciatingly painful, viewing experience, due to the honest but misguided actions of its characters. [More]
Starring: Anna Thompson, Jamie Harris, Victor Argo, Louise Lasser
Starring: Anna Thompson, Jamie Harris, Victor Argo, Louise Lasser, Robert Modica, Austin Pendleton, Anna Levine, Salem Ludwig, Mark Margolis, Lonette McKee
Director: Amos Kollek
Director: Amos Kollek
Screenwriter: Amos Kollek
Studio: Lot 47 Films
Reviews for Fast Food, Fast Women
Audience-insulting. Our heroine has faced no difficulty, learned nothing, earned nothing, but she has a lovely fairy-tale ending that's supposed to make us leave the theater happy.
Despite some lovely moments ... Fast Food Fast Women operates like a sitcom.
Just a vain attempt at making a movie about the perils of romance in the modern age.
Nothing runs very deep, or very diverting ... in this overplayed, underwritten slice of (love-)life.
There is warmth and empathy at the core of this movie that can overcome everything about it that's frustrating.
Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.
Naive as Kollek's writing is, there's something winning about his sympathy with out-of-step characters.
An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense and represents a wholly unanticipated advance on the part of Kollek.
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