The Cake Eaters

The Cake Eaters is a 2007 American independent drama film about two small town families who must confront old issues with the return of one familys son. The film was directed by Mary Stuart Masterson in her feature film directorial debut and stars Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, Bruce Dern, and Jayce Bartok. Kristen Stewart is featured as Georgia, a young girl with Friedreichs ataxia, a rare disease for which there is currently no cure.

Upon Guys return home, relationships between the characters begin to unravel Beagles pent up emotions connect with Georgia Kaminski, a terminally ill teenage girl wanting to experience love before it is too late Easys longtime affair with Marg, Georgias eccentric grandmother, is finally exposed to the Kimbrough children and Guy discovers that in his absence his high school sweetheart, Stephanie, has moved on and started a family of her own. Consequently, The Kimbroughs and Kaminskis manage to establish new beginnings in facing their varied relationships.In an interview at The Austin Film Festival in 2007, Jayce Bartok, the movies screenwriter, was asked about the titles meaning. Bartok is quoted as saying, The Cake Eaters is a term I grew up with in Pennsylvania. My mom used to use it to describe those who had it made, had their lives mapped out for them, were the most likely to succeed The Cake Eaters. I thought it was an interesting metaphor for this group of misfits who begin the story searching and longing for love, trying to overcome grief, and through the course of the story find their cake. They find some love, happiness, peace. The term was widely popularized as a quote from the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks ........

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