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Fast Food, Fast Women
Lot 47 Films
MPAA RATING: R for sexuality/nudity and language
Starring
Anna Levine Thomson,
Jamie Harris,
Louise Lasser,
Robert Modica,
Lonette McKee,
Victor Argo,
and
Angelica Torn
A contemporary New York comedy that follows the romantic twists and turns of the patrons of a Manhattan coffee shop and its over-worked waitress Bella (Thomson), who, on the cusp of her 35th birthday allows herself to be set-up on a date with Bruno (Harris), an irresponsible cab driver and father of two. (Lot 47 Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Amos Kollek
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Amos Kollek
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 26, 2002
Video: November 26, 2002
Theatrical: May 18, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / Italy / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense.

70
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Boasts engaging characters, inventive situations and a series of satisfying punchlines that will send viewers out with a smile.

70
Village Voice
Leslie Camhi
In his film's better moments, Kollek makes us laugh at these visions while also revealing their grace and frailty.

63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
As usual, Thomson steers right into the heart of vulnerability, with a painfully true performance as a guarded, confused soul.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A warmhearted, hardworking little comedy that owes a lot of its charm to its modesty.
60
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
One of those genially paced, character-driven indies, and succeeds as such very well.
50
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Despite a script that occasionally calls for some embarrassingly awkward lines, Kollek's cast generally acquits itself well.

40
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
The film's power lies in the fact that the façade is crumbling on the actress even as she clings to it. That this is not a pathetic sight is due to the grit that we glimpse through the cracks. It's Barbie, becoming human.

40
Washington Post
Curt Fields
Tries hard to be charming but succeeds only occasionally.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There's nothing wrong with Fast Food Fast Women that a casting director and a rewrite couldn't have fixed.

38
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Kollek's fondness for whimsical plot turns adds still more random elements to a movie that at times seems edited by a blindfolded monkey.
38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Painfully cute drama.

33
Portland Oregonian
Staff (Not credited)
Dreary and dull.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
It's not wrong to wish these actors were working in the service of a better script or more assured direction, but it's probably also possible to simply take pleasure in their performances.

30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Yet another of Israeli-born filmmaker Amos Kolleck's pointless, meandering tales of eccentric New Yorkers navigating the treacherous waters of love and survival.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Overly familiar, poorly cast and often annoyingly crude New York comedy that never finds its groove.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Kollek is a fringe auteur who makes independent films the old fashioned way: no budget, static camera, a script that telegraphs its tiny, paste gem ironies.

20
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Fast Food Fast Women is "Sex and the City" in Payless shoes. An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.

20
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another.


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