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Fast Food Fast Women

2001, Movie, R, 96 mins

Fast Food Fast Women: Review

FAST FOOD FAST WOMEN
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Yet another of Israeli-born filmmaker Amos Kolleck's pointless, meandering tales of eccentric New Yorkers navigating the treacherous waters of love and survival. Greenwich Village waitress Bella (Anna Thomson) is a relentlessly nice, if kooky, person. Sure, she does ridiculous things like stand on her fire escape wearing nothing but a towel, which she then flings to the homeless men who sleeps on the street below. But she also befriends all manner of strays, including Paul (Robert Modica) and Seymour (Victor Argo), cranky old men who frequent the diner where she works; Vitka (Angelica Torn), the stuttering Polish hooker who solicits johns from the pavement outside; Vitka's angry adolescent son, Leo (Salem Ludwig); and even an elderly stranger (Irma St. Paul) she rescues from muggers. Trapped in a dead-end relationship with married, much-older theater director George (Austin Pendleton), who's been stringing her along for more than ten years, Bella — who's freaked at the prospect of her 35th birthday — allows her pushy mother (Judith Roberts) to set her up with English expat Bruno (Jamie Harris). A taxi driver and aspiring novelist, Bruno has just found himself saddled with two youngsters — his own five-year-old daughter and her younger half-brother — whom his estranged wife has unceremoniously abandoned. Meanwhile, Paul and Seymour try to jump-start their love lives: Paul takes out a personal ad and meets the widowed Emily (Louise Lasser), while Seymour becomes infatuated with a much younger exotic dancer named Wanda (Valerie Geffner). Various characters' paths cross and intersect — Wanda lives across the street from Paul, Emily finds herself in Bruno's taxi, Paul hires Vitka — but none of their encounters amount to anything much. It falls to the whiny, emaciated Thomson, whose face has a smeared quality that suggests too much ill-advised plastic surgery, to hold everything together. Frankly, she's not up to the task. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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