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1.0 out of 5 starsWhere was the cake and who was eating it?
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2016
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.