| Fast Food Fast Women | | Cast : | Anna Levine, Jamie Harris | | Director : | Amos Kollek | | Studio : | New Yorker Video | | Format : | Color, Widescreen | | Released Date : | January 01, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | March 16, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 07, 2005 | | Summary | MOSTLY CHARMING "MOMENTS" FILM | Content
 | As films woven around slice-of-life vignettes typically go, this is a relaxed, thoughtful, often meandering film. We follow a couple of tracks strewn with romantic hits and misses, all of which intertwine at the end. No surprise there.
The title owes its wordplay to our characters either working or lurking at a roadside cafe and chomping away their misgivings about Life-And-All-That as a means to grope, often literally, for answers.
The pace is lethargic and lends the film a fey overtone. This probably played a part in my surprise at a certain denouement twist. It's cute, depending on whom you ask.
But the characters I shall take issue with. The lead waitress is an implausible caricature, a former Wall Street banker so jaded by her career that she chose to wait tables at a nondescript corner joint. Her romantic interest is a well educated English cab driver with an immaculate London accent, a budding writer by night. The parallel romance between a 60-something couple rediscovering their atavistic bond could have been sweet but ends up teary and saccharine.
Not the biggest of quibbles, I guess, New York is a city of surprises. Plus it's an indie so warts shouldn't be shocking. Certainly a worthy rental if you don't mind the usual holes that accompany an offbeat package. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 31, 2005 | | Summary | Age Over Youth | Content
| At first, Anna Thomson's botox lips, nose job, and silicone distracted me. I notice that this look is big in Hollywood, the bee stung lips of so many movie stars, their big boobs on a starved stick of a body makes the young guys pant, but the girls can't possibly match the impossible can they? Anna is an educated woman that has rejected Wall Street to work as a waitress in a diner. She's 35 and her mom's applying the pressure. Her Broadway paramour, a married man has strung her along since she was 23. Enter Jamie Harris, starving taxicab driving, failed novelist. Suddenly ex-wife dumps Jamie's kid plus one on him. Naturally through a series of unlikely big city moments, Anna and Jamie hook up, lose each other, and love.
Then there's the autumn autumn match of still spry, 70 year old Robert Modica and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, ex-Woodie Allen wife Louise Lasser. This relationship of seasoned citizens so rare in film took the show away from the yougen's. We cared whether or not sweet, only had sex with someone he loved, Modica can get it up for willing Lasser. We hoped the drugstore was stocked with Viagara.
The screenplay offered some silly city shtick to be New York City hip, but these scenes fall flat. Nevertheless, this one, the babe and I enjoyed.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 06, 2003 | | Summary | Wooden, 2-Dimensional and Slow | Content
| This movie was filled with stereotypes and characters that just didn't make me care. The editing was self-indulgent and slow and there were several scenes that should have ended up on the cutting room floor. It is an uncomfortable movie with little warmth and an overdose of angst. The quirks that they tried to work in for the characters to make them human were very contrived and made me conscious I was watching a movie rather than allowing me to get involved in the story and characters as people. The actors did their best - but couldn't overcome the flaws in directing, editing and story line. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 12, 2002 | | Summary | Louise Lasser does it again!!! | Content
| Louise Lasser is as brilliantly funny in this movie as she was in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman over 25 years ago. Although she has a supporting role, she fills the screen with her familiar style of comedy and sweetness. I recommend this film just because of her. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 31, 2001 | | Summary | Sparkling | Content
| ... I have to write about this glorious film as the average rating is way below acceptable. I saw it twice in one week, living in Greece this spring. This is an unusual, refreshing film about Bella, an unusual mid-30's NY woman, who refuses to live typically and a whole set of Big Apple characters she interacts with who share her life and her free spirit. How can you not adore a woman who throws her perfumed just-out-of-the-tub lush towels out the window to tantalize and warm the hobos under her apartment, a woman who still cares for her unkind older lover whom the camera has no sympathy for, and who herself has an elegant compassion for the colourful characters she waits on in her diner workplace or who interact with them? These include the exhibitionist peep show intellectual, the older guy with the shyness of an adolescent, as well as the taxi driver/closet writer and young father who is overawed by Bella's unique outlook and femininity, and you should be itching to know about the fantastical 5-D fairy tale outcome to a chance confrontation in the heroine's NY life. I can't wait for the video...when's it coming out? |
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