Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Elizabeth Ashley | ... | Marg Kaminski | |
Jayce Bartok | ... | Guy Kimbrough | |
Bruce Dern | ... | Easy Kimbrough | |
Miriam Shor | ... | Stephanie | |
Aaron Stanford | ... | Dwight 'Beagle' Kimbrough | |
Kristen Stewart | ... | Georgia Kaminski | |
Talia Balsam | ... | Violet Kaminski | |
Tom Cavanagh | ... | Lloyd | |
Melissa Leo | ... | Ceci Kimbrough | |
Jesse L. Martin | ... | Judd | |
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Avery Rak | ... | Young Guy |
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Andrew George Jr. | ... | Young Beagle (as Andrew George) |
Dan McCabe | ... | Teenage Boy #1 | |
Conor Romero | ... | Teenage Boy #2 | |
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Jeffrey Spiegel | ... | Teenage Boy #3 |
In a small town in the countryside, Georgia Kaminski is a fifteen year-old girl with Friedreich's ataxia, a genetic disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system resulting in clumsy movements, speech problems heading to heart disease. While in a flea market selling goods with her grandmother Marg, Georgia meets the shy twenty-years old Beagle Kimbrough, who works in the cafeteria of her school and is the son of the local butcher Easy. Beagle spent the last years taking care of his ill mother while Easy and Marg have secretly been lovers for many years. Georgia feels that she will have few years of life and decides to lose her virginity with the sensitive Beagle. Meanwhile, Easy's older son Guy returns from New York for the funeral of his mother and seeks out the hairdresser Stephanie, who was his fiancée that he left behind when he moved to New York chasing the dream of becoming a successful musician. During the reunion, the lives of members of both families experience ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
We watched this movie with a group of friends. Mainly I was watching to see Bruce Dern, whom I think is phenomenal and whose biography I had just finished reading.
What really surprised me was the beauty and sentiment in this film. Kristen Stewart I have to say was amazing! The story was amazing! Bruce Dern was utterly believable as usual. The direction from Mary Stuart Masterson, though she could have toned down Elizabeth Ashley's acting just a tad, was really wonderful.
We all ended up giving this sweet film a enthusiastic thumbs up. It's about relationships, death of a parent, break up's, hook up's, parent/child relationships and all that goes into life. The Cake Eaters. Have you cake and eat it too.