Feast of Love

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Feast of Love
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Directed by	Robert Benton
Produced by	Gary Lucchesi
Written by	Allison Burnett Charles Baxter
Starring	Morgan Freeman Selma Blair Greg Kinnear Toby Hemingway Radha Mitchell Stana Katic and Fred Ward
Music by	Stephen Trask
Cinematography	Kramer Morgenthau
Editing by	Andrew Mondshein
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	September 28, 2007
Running time	102 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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Feast of Love is a 2007 romance film directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman, Fred Ward and several other actors. The cast-ensemble drama, based on the novel of the same name by Charles Baxter, was first released on September 28, 2007, in the United States and worldwide in 2008.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Critical reception
5 Box office performance
6 References
7 External links:

[edit] Plot

A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Portland, Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.

[edit] Cast

Morgan Freeman as Harry Stevenson
Greg Kinnear as Bradley Smith
Radha Mitchell as Diana Smith
Billy Burke as David Watson
Selma Blair as Kathryn Smith
Alexa Davalos as Chloe
Toby Hemingway as Oscar
Stana Katic as Jenny
Erika Marozsán as Margit Vekashi-Smith
Jane Alexander as Esther Stevenson
Fred Ward as Bat
Margo Martindale as Mrs. Maggarolian
Missi Pyle as Agatha
Shannon Lucio as Janey

[edit] Production

While many of the movies scenes are set at Portland State University, the nearby campuses of Western Seminary and Reed College were the actual location of filming. Locations at Reed include the Blue Bridge, The Front Lawn and Elliot Circle.

[edit] Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 41% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 104 reviews.^[1] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 51 out of 100, based on 28 reviews.^[2]

[edit] Box office performance

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $1.7 million in 1,200 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #12 at the box office.^[3] It grossed a total of $5.4 million worldwide — $3.5 million in the United States and Canada and $1.9 million in other territories.^[4]