Rated: R
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander and Alexa Davalos
Directed By: Robert Benton

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Bring a box of tissues with you when you go to see Feast of Love, it"s a wonderful heartfelt film which delves into some very different relationships. Not a chick flick, yet probably more emotional for women. (Guys, it"s hugging time.)

A soap opera set in beautiful landscaped Portland, Feast of Love involves a string of complex love stories all tied together by Harry (Morgan Freeman), an elderly college professor with deep seeded emotional problems of his own.

At the center of the sometimes-comical life study is Bradley (Kinnear), who thinks he leads the perfect life with his attractive wife Kathryn (Blair). When Kathryn leaves him for a female baseball player, the life lessons begin.

Not giving up on love, Bradley meets and falls for the beautiful Diana (Mitchell), unbeknownst to him she’s rebounding from an affair with David (Burke), a married man.

In the meantime, troubled Chloe (Davalos) finds herself in love with Oscar (Hemmingway), and the two enter into a Romeo and Juliet relationship. When Oscar’s father (Ward) creates problems for the couple, Harry steps in. You should probably have the idea by now as to where this is going...

Oh, what about the tissues I told you to bring? All the stories culminate at the end with a surprise finish, and that’s when you want to pull the tab on the Kleenex box. (Men, this is where you want to start hugging her.)

Leading the stellar cast is Freeman as Harry, the lovable guy who represents maturity, understanding and trust. His superb acting ability really shines during a scene when you find out what is deep down in him that is slowly tearing his heart apart.

Kinnear makes a great Bradley, the quiet guy who’s just prodding through life thinking nothing can go wrong. And when things do take Bradley in another direction, Kinnear provides the necessary emotional complexity that makes his character believable. You would have to go back to 1997 for a performance as good by Kinnear, back when he played Simon Bishop in As Good as it Gets.

The film does have its faults, and I may be a little petty here. The main female actresses in the film resemble each other a little too much. Since there are several stories being played out simultaneously connecting to Bradley’s ordeal, I found myself a little confused from time to time identifying characters.

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