Preview: The Cake Eaters (2009)

Synopsis:

A mentally and physically handicapped young girl develops a relationship with an emotionally stunted high school cook.

• Poster: C

Review:

It's a more colorful and interesting design than a lot of the character-portrait designs that so often get used. Instead of carelessly lining the images up across the top or bottom of the poster, they carefully scatter them across the center of the image. The greens and blues are soft and pleasing enough to look at.

• Trailer: B-

Review:

I want to say this will be an interesting movie, but something about the deliberate nature of the plot and the stunt casting of Kristen Stewart as a mentally/physically challenged person, and then highlighting that fact in the critic commentary in the trailer is a bit too baity.

Oscar Prospects:

The movie opened this weekend with little fanfare and Stewart isn't the kind of actress that Oscar voters would be clamoring to recognize, so the film is pretty much out of luck.

Release Date:

• March 13, 2009

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (March 15, 2009) Original