Eat With Me
Eat With Me
NR | 05 December 2014 (USA)
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When Emma moves in with her estranged, gay son, the pair must learn to reconnect through food where words fail, and face the foreclosure of the family’s Chinese restaurant and a stubborn fear of intimacy.

Reviews
Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Christopher Malpas Eat With Me had been in my recommendations on Netflix for ages, so finally I decided to watch it. I watch quite a few of the LGBT films on Netflix as I am a member of that community so it is nice to see it represented on film once in a while.However, I found this film just boring. Very little really happens, and when it does its so random it doesn't look or feel realistic. It feels like a plot point.The relationship between Elliot and his mother was quite sweet to watch as they reconnected with each other, and there is one hilarious scene where the mother Emma, ends up accidentally taking drugs with the nextdoor neighbour.On to the gay relationship part of the movie, the love interest, Ian, was just terrible terrible terrible - bland and clichéd. Whoever the actor is, his name fails me now he left so little impression, delivered his lines like something from a local amateur dramatic society play. Wooden, and like he was directly reading off a page from the script. There was very little development of the relationship between Elliot and Ian, and because there was no real timeline to follow you couldn't really tell how far along they were supposed to be. Neither did I really care by the end of it.The movie comes to a fairly abrupt and unsatisfying ending that doesn't really tie up any loose ends from what plot there was.To sum up, a dull distraction. Something to watch when you have nothing else to.
Joe Luu I wanted to like this movie, I really did, but there was nothing that grabbed me and made me want to stay. But sadly I did and the more I sat and watched the more I sighed and tried not to cringe at the excruciating dialogue presented. When I saw this movie on Netflix I thought it would be perfect for me since I myself am a gay Asian man and I could relate. Big mistake. While the setting and ambiance was well thought out, the execution and chemistry between the characters are so poor you can't really notice anything else. The writing makes me so angry I find myself dumbfounded how anybody thought it was acceptable. For example the love interest, Ian, was British and you can tell not only by his accent but by his lines. "Wow. Brilliant!" "Cheers" "Bloody hell" and it doesn't help that the actor playing him is bland and unconvincing. The conversations the characters have with each other are so bizarre that the actors themselves do not even know how to react. This happens every time Jenny (Jamila Alina) is on screen. The only saving grace of this film is Nicole Sullivan and George Takei. The whole film is boring and slow and doesn't leave you rooting for anybody. Don't watch this, save your time.
dingaohome Okay IMDb you need to fix your rating system. It's a very sweet down to earth life film that doesn't try to be anything more than it is. It has very funny moments and awkward ones. You will enjoy it a lot more if you don't put everything under the microscope. Shannon Omi played the role very well and it was very impressive to see an older Asian woman as the main character. I enjoyed watching Emma's journey of discovering/reinventing herself and breaking stereotypes as an Asian woman. Overall it was well developed with solid characters and good watch for anyone who wants to try something outside the mainstream.
E F This movie was really bad. Not the worst movie I'd ever seen, but a waste of time nonetheless and infuriating to watch. Here are the reasons I hated it: - Acting. Some of the most inexpressive faces and bodies ever seen on the silver screen. No believability to the characters. You really felt they were "only pretending". The best actor of the group, to me, was the character Maureen. - Dialogue. I think a high school student could have written the dialogue. - Cinematography. Completely uninteresting way to film a movie. The angles and shots felt like they were taken by any random person simply holding up a video camera. - Predictable storyline. Slow pacing of movie. Overall, thoroughly unenjoyable to me - I also find the existing 8.3 rating on IMDb highly, highly suspect.