The Cake Eaters: A Feel Good Factor
The Cake Eaters is a directorial debut film of Mary Stuart Masterson who herself has been a great actress. The casting of Cake Eaters include Aaron Stanford as Beagle and Kristen Stewart as Georgia. Its worth mentioning about Stewart as she is growing up to be a very powerful and fine actress. Her performance was remarkable in the film Twilight where she played the role of the Vampire’s girlfriend. Here in Cake Eaters she portrays herself as altogether a different kind of lover and she does immense justice to this film too.
Film: The Cake Eaters
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, Bruce Dern, Elizabeth Ashley, Miriam Shor
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Writer: Jayce Bartok
Running Time: 1 hour and 35 minutes
Rating: 3/5
In this film, Kristen Stewart is a high school student suffering from a degenerative muscle disorder that compels her to walk unsteadily. She cannot stand straight and when she speaks her words are not clear. It seems that she had overdose of beer.
The story unfolds with Georgia meeting Beagle at the flea market and thereby inviting him to come over to her house at the evening. Beagle does not have problem with her physical condition, but his only worry is about meeting girls.
Beagle himself was undergoing a series of mental trauma as it was in recent times that he lost his mother who suffered from cancer. During the long phase of his mother’s illness, his brother Guy played by Jayce Bartok was busy trying his luck as a Rock Star in New York. When he returned, it was all too late as their mother was no longer alive.
Beagle had a big fight with his brother on this. Bruce Dern played the role of their father, Easy who was a cool man and was always remained within himself.
On this side, Georgia’s hairdresser asks her to take it easy on the relationship that she shares with Beagle. But, Georgia confronts that saying that she is not looking for sympathy from Beagle, instead it is sex that she wants to have with him and he chose Beagle not out of any feeling but just that he does not look bad and he being gentle, she can get him to do whatever she wants to.
Beagle was elder to Georgia by some three to four years but mentally Georgia was far more matured than Beagle.
The other side of the story is Beagle was petrified to see his father kissing Georgia’s Grandmother Marge played by Elizabeth Ashley soon after his mother’s funeral.
The film pulsated with romances of Georgia and Beagle going parallel with Marge and Easy along with Stephanie and Guy. Stephanie was the girl whom Guy proposed but left for New York without even bidding her goodbye.
So, there were three romances and one need to watch the film to see how it all ended.
All that can be said is that the film ‘The Cake Eaters’ ends with a feel good factor and you feel the soft touches given by the director and meticulously performed by all the artistes.
