The Cake Eaters: DVD Review
The Cake Eaters
Rating: M
Released by Arkles Entertainment
Kristen Stewart (sort of) sheds her Bella from Twilight image in
this bittersweet story of love.
Set in small town America, Stewart plays Georgia, a teen with
Freidreich's Ataxia, a progressive degenerative disease of the
nervous system.
Georgia suffers with a slurred speech and a stuttering walk - but
one day, while at a car boot sale, she meets Beagle (Aaron
Stanford), the son of a local butcher. Beagle's family has been
torn apart by their mother's death and his long errant brother has
also just returned to town - to a wall of bitterness and anger at
his absence during the family loss.
This quiet low key, character driven indie would probably have been
consigned to TV movie status (and has sat on a shelf since 2007)
were it not for Kristen Stewart and the Twilight mania. That said,
while she does play a variation of the Bella character, Stewart
shows what a talented actress she actually is.
Rating: 6/10
