Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 120 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Trish Sie
Stars: Yara Shahidi, Odessa A'zion and Bette Midler
IMDb score:
6,5 (3.909)
Releasedate: 7 September 2023
Sitting in Bars with Cake plot
"There’s no recipe for the perfect friendship."
Best friends Jane and Corinne navigate life in Los Angeles in their twenties. Corinne, the ultimate extrovert, convinces Jane, a shy but extremely talented home baker, to bake cakes and take them to bars for a year. She is supposed to meet people in this way and build self-confidence. During this year, Corinne receives a life-changing diagnosis and the pair face a challenge unlike any they have faced before.
Reviews & comments
Pazmaster
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- 2797 messages
- 6098 votes
A stupid name for a film that fits a stupid concept; eating cake in bars to meet men. But throw some cancer into the mix and you suddenly have a completely different film, and that's actually what this film is about. This subject is sensitive to many people because almost everyone knows someone who has (had) to deal with the disease or has (experienced) it themselves. I think it's a bit easy to score and it's far from original. There are countless films that deal with the same subject and do it better. The cast plays quite well, but unfortunately that is not enough to excel. Given the subject, there will undoubtedly be people who will be touched by this film, but as I said, it remains an easy score. If you were to leave out the subject of cancer you would be left with nothing more than an extremely lame video with a stupid concept. Not enough from me, and even then I'm being lenient.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Film with two faces. Not much is left of the live-for-fun couple who go on a man hunt using delicious cakes as a lure when the duo's pacesetter is struck by a life-threatening illness. A beautiful film about unconditional friendship between pleasant protagonists.
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Filmreiziger
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- 633 messages
- 551 votes
Maybe I had too high expectations, but this movie is not good. The acting is on Hallmark level. The true story kept on going for the first half hour and even when the big news came about the disease it didn't hit home. Nothing happened, the jokes weren't funny, the actresses were portrayed as clichés. The actors are just a size too small for this movie that doesn't have to rely on the great script. Furthermore, the movie was given far too little context about how they came up with this idiotic idea (eating cake in a bar to seduce men). I didn't get to know the cake-making lead actress much better in the first half hour.
For me, the prospect of spending another 1.5 hours of my life on this was too uncertain an investment and I switched to another film when I still had time. The second half may be masterful or at least much better, I'll never know, but for a film I turned off, I think 1.5 stars is quite generous.
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