Feast of Love is a 2007 American drama film directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke and Selma Blair. The film, based on the 2000 novel The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter, was first released on September 28, 2007, in the United States.

Plot[link]

The movie deals with love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Portland, Oregon. Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) narrates about how love can affect one's life.

Bradley[link]

Bradley runs a small cafe in Portland. He has been married to his wife Kathryn for some time. However, their marriage becomes strained. Soon enough Kathryn begins a lesbian relationship with a woman, Jenny, she meets playing softball and leaves Bradley. The divorce affects Bradley greatly, but he soon finds love again in Diana, a realtor who also has a past with a married man named David. Though she ends her affair with David to marry Bradley they ultimately declare they are in love with each other and Diana leaves Bradley, again devastating him. Now twice divorced Bradley suffers a mini-breakdown and stabs himself in the hand. As he is getting stitched up in the hospital he falls for his doctor, Margaret. In the film's conclusion the two are revealed to marry.

Oscar & Chloe[link]

Oscar is a young man working at Bradley's cafe who soon meets and falls in love with a girl named Chloe. However, Oscar is revealed to be living with his alcoholically abusive father, Bat. Their love endures as they decide to live together and even become engaged. At the wedding, Chloe reveals to Harry that she is pregnant, and plans to have another baby right after due to Harry's advice of having "two." When she visits a fortune teller, the psychic reveals Oscar will die. Though upset about the news Chloe soon forgets what the fortune tellers said. In the film's conclusion as everybody gathers for an afternoon in the park Oscar collapses, and despite attempts to get him to a hospital he dies of a heart defect due to the heavy traffic. Then Bat attempts to avenge his son's death by harming Chloe but Harry scares him off and asks if he and his wife Esther can adopt Chloe.

Diana & David[link]

Diana is a successful realtor and has been carrying on an affair with the married David. Though she asks him numerous times to leave his wife, Karen, of 11 years he cannot bring himself to do it. Their relationship becomes even more volatile when Diana begins dating Bradley and falls in love with him. David persists he loves Diana, but unable to leave his wife, Diana marries Bradley and ends their affair. However, their love is later rekindled when Karen discovers her husband was cheating, leaving him. Free at last, David and Diana have an emotional confrontation in the park that ends with a kiss that Bradley sees, fueling their divorce and Bradley stabbing himself. In the film's conclusion Diana and David are shown as a public and functionally happy couple.

Harry & Esther[link]

Harry and his wife Esther have been married a long time. Harry is a patron at Bradley's cafe and often provides the younger generation with advice on love. However, it is revealed that Harry and Esther are masking their own grief after the death of their adult son, Aaron. Harry reveals the nature of his son's death to Chloe, whom he and Esther grow very close to. Harry has also been struggling with the decision of going back to work as a Professor at a university. In the film's conclusion after Oscar's death he and Esther offer to adopt a now widowed and pregnant Chloe, who tearfully accepts their offer.

Cast[link]

• Morgan Freeman as Harry Stevenson
• Greg Kinnear as Bradley Smith
• Radha Mitchell as Diana Croce
• Billy Burke as David Watson
• Selma Blair as Kathryn Smith
• Alexa Davalos as Chloe Barlow
• Toby Hemingway as Oscar
• Stana Katic as Jenny
• Erika Marozsán as Margaret Vekashi
• Jane Alexander as Esther Stevenson
• Fred Ward as Bat Gamlen
• Margo Martindale as Mrs. Maggarolian
• Missi Pyle as Agatha Smith
• Alex Mentzel as Billy Smith
• Shannon Lucio as Janey
• Scott Patrick Green as Young Minister at Funeral

Production[link]

While many of the movies scenes are set at Portland State University, the nearby campuses of Western Seminary and Reed College were the actual location of filming. Locations at Reed include the Blue Bridge, the front lawn and Eliot Circle. Scenes in the Jitters Cafe, owned by Kinnear's character, were filmed at the Fresh Pot at the corner of N Mississippi Avenue and Shaver streets in Portland.

Critical reception[link]

The film received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 41% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 104 reviews.^[1] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 51 out of 100, based on 28 reviews.^[2]

Roger Ebert reviewed that this film contains the worst performance of Fred Ward, "no movie can be very good that contains Fred Ward's worst performance!"

Box office performance[link]

In its opening weekend, the film grossed US$1.7 million in 1,200 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #12 at the box office.^[3] It grossed a total of US$5.4 million worldwide — US$3.5 million in the United States and Canada and US$1.9 million in other territories.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Feast of Love at the Internet Movie Database
• Feast of Love at Rotten Tomatoes
• Feast of Love at Metacritic
• Feast of Love at Box Office Mojo
• Feast of Love at AllRovi

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Toby Michael C. A. Hemingway^[1] (born 28 May 1983) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Reid Garwin in the 2006 supernatural thriller The Covenant. Hemingway's most recent films include Black Swan, Into the Darkness, Street, and Playback.

Early life[link]

Son of authors Mike and Annamaria Hemingway, Toby Hemingway was born in Brighton, England but moved to Ojai, California with his mother when he was thirteen. He has an older brother named Jay.^[2]

After graduating high school in 2001 from Laurel Springs School, which provides homeschooling and online education, he attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City where he earned an associates degree in Fine Arts.

Acting career[link]

In 2005, he appeared in select episodes of the series Summerland, CSI: Miami and Bones. The following year, he had his first major film role in The Covenant. In 2007, he went on to star in a Feast of Love and in 2008, he appeared in select episodes of CSI: Miami. In July 2010, he played the love interest in Taylor Swift's music video "Mine".^[3] Later in 2010, he landed a minor role in Black Swan.

As of 2012, Hemingway plays a supporting role on the The Finder as Willa's gypsy cousin Timo Proud.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Toby Hemingway at the Internet Movie Database

Lee Jung aka J. Lee (born Lee Jung Hee, 이정희, on October 24, 1981) is a South Korean singer and actor. He made his debut as a member of 7 Dayz; Lee has since become a solo singer. Although his last album has underperformed, he has continued his popularity by becoming a mainstay on KBS's Heroine 6, becoming part of the "Gag Team 3" with Shin Jung Hwan from Country Kko Kko and Kim Jong Min from Koyote.

In January 2007, Lee claimed that another singer used his voice to debut.^[1] He stated that he heard his recording being used by another artist by viewing the performance on television. He previously thought the song was going to be his debut song to launch his singing career. "Lee Jung lipsynch singer" went on to become most searched keyword at one point.^[2]

He joined the Korean marines on October 12, 2008.^[3][4][5]

Discography[link]

• 7 Dayz
• Vol. 1 - Lee Jung released 2003.
• Vol. 2 - Look at Me released 2004.
• Vol. 3 - Rebirth of Regent released 2006.
• Vol. 4 - Fourth Force released June 2008
• Let's Dance released 2011 (under the name J. Lee by Medialine and Best Music)

Television and Movie appearances[link]

• Nonstop 5: (논스톱 5)
• X-man (First appearance X-man #16 - August 21, 2004)
• Love Letter (First appearance Love Letter Season 3 Episode 2 June 10, 2006)
• The Legend Seven Cutter (2006)
• Unstoppable Marriage (2007)

References[link]

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Kim So-eun(born September 6, 1989) is a South Korean actress under Fantagio Entertainment. She is best known for the role of Chu Ga-eul in the popular drama series Boys Over Flowers.^[1]

Biography[link]

Kim So Eun's first acting role was a small part in the 2004 film "Two Guys", when she was still in junior high. Since then she has appeared in various films (including "Fly, Daddy, Fly" and "The Show Must Go On") but she is known more for her acting on TV.
Her best-known TV role was in the 2009 Korean TV drama series "Boys Over Flowers", in which she played Chu Ga-eul, the love interest of Kim Bum's character, So Yi Jung. In 2009 she also played one of the lead roles in "The Man Who Can't Get Married".

She has also appeared in music videos for musical acts like SHINee and 8eight, and has done commercials for Clean and Clear and Pocari Sweat. In 2009 she became the ambassador of the 5th Korea International Youth Film Festival.

She debuted as a lyricist in the recent MBC Music’s reality program Music and Lyrics.

In 2012, Kim So Eun debuts in China with Secret Angel.

Personal Life[link]

She currently attends Chung-Ang University majoring in Theater and Film with her good friends, Choi Woo Hyuk, Go Ara and Kim Bum.^[2][3]

Filmography[link]

Dramas[link]

Films[link]

Music videos appearances[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

Goodwill Ambassador[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Cyworld (Korean)
• Kim So Eun at HanCinema
• Kim So-eun at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Daum Cafe (Korean)

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