The Cake Eaters

The Cake Eaters (2007)

In a small town in the countryside, Georgia Kaminski is a fifteen year-old girl with Friedreich's ataxia, a genetic disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system resulting in clumsy movements, speech problems heading to heart disease. While in a flea market selling goods with her grandmother Marg, Georgia meets the shy twenty-years old Beagle Kimbrough, who works in the cafeteria of her school and is the son of the local butcher Easy. Beagle spent the last years taking care of his ill mother while Easy and Marg have secretly been lovers for many years. Georgia feels that she will have few years of life and decides to lose her virginity with the sensitive Beagle. Meanwhile, Easy's older son Guy returns from New York for the funeral of his mother and seeks out the hairdresser Stephanie, who was his fiancée that he left behind when he moved to New York chasing the dream of becoming a successful musician. During the reunion, the lives of members of both families experience new discoveries and feelings.

Genres

Comedy Drama Romance

Countries

United States

Director

Mary Stuart Masterson

Writer

Jayce Bartok

Producers

Allen Bain Mary Stuart Masterson Darren Goldberg Elle Key Jesse Scolaro

Composer

Duncan Sheik

Cinematographer

Peter Masterson

Editors

Joe Landauer Colleen Sharp

Production

The 7th Floor Vinyl Foote Productions

Starring

Also starring

Aaron Stanford Bruce Dern Elizabeth Ashley Jayce Bartok Miriam Shor Talia Balsam Tom Cavanagh Melissa Leo Jesse L. Martin Elle Key Elizabeth Van Meter Elizabeth Girardeau Susan Gardner Marylouise Burke Grant Monohon Devin Ratray

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