That "Feast of Love" is an overstuffed melodrama, better suited for broadcast as a TV movie of the week than as a theatrical release, is bad enough.
That it comes from Robert Benton, a veteran whose output has slowly, steadily declined in quality since writing "Bonnie and Clyde" and writing and directing "Kramer vs. Kramer," is just plain sad.
But what's truly troubling is the way the film, written by Allison Burnett based on the novel by Charles Baxter, regards women as idiots and objects.
Every actress gets fully, gratuitously naked at some point (except Jane Alexander, who manages to maintain some dignity alongside Morgan Freeman as her husband).
One (played by Selma Blair) abruptly leaves her husband (Greg Kinnear) for another woman � a stereotypical, softball-playing, predatory lesbian. More>>
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