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Fast Food, Fast Women
Lot 47 Films

Fast Food, Fast Women reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 36 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.0 out of 10
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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  
WRITTEN BY: Amos Kollek  
DIRECTED BY: Amos Kollek  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: November 26, 2002 
Video: November 26, 2002 
Theatrical: May 18, 2001 
RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: France / Italy / USA 

What The Critics Said

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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
An intimate, small-scale movie in the nicest sense.
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70
Variety Lisa Nesselson
Boasts engaging characters, inventive situations and a series of satisfying punchlines that will send viewers out with a smile.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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40
Washington Post Curt Fields
Tries hard to be charming but succeeds only occasionally.
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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.
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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.
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33
Portland Oregonian Staff (Not credited)
Dreary and dull.
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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.
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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.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse.
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25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Overly familiar, poorly cast and often annoyingly crude New York comedy that never finds its groove.
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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.
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20
Washington Post Rita Kempley
Fast Food Fast Women is "Sex and the City" in Payless shoes. An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.
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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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