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Movie Review: Cake

Posted by Adam Gonshor on December 2nd, 2005


An all-star cast and a brilliant script help prove that you can see Cake and enjoy it too.

Cake (now playing in Canada) is a romantic comedy with a purpose. Pippa McGee (Heather Graham) not only tries to find the sentiment of love that she’s tried to avoid, but also seeks a meaning to her tousled life.

Pippa has been a travel writer for eight years. She wakes up one morning to find her father, a magazine baron, passed out. He regains consciousness in a hospital and tells his daughter that he needs an editor for his wedding magazine. Anxious to help, despite her lifelong protest to anything connected to love, Pippa volunteers.

Pippa’s new career may be too much to handle for a girl who wants to change the world. That bold ambition gets its start as she tries to reinvent the magazine, full of her version of the truth about love. A dead bride replaces the usual peppy, white-gowned, model on the cover.

David Sutcliffe plays Ian, her father’s right-hand man and the object to her affection. She also has a good time with photographer Hemingway Jones, played by Taye Diggs. And so she begins her conquest into finding the balance of lust and love.

Graham, who also serves as one of the movie’s executive producers, excels is her first leading comedic role. To play Pippa, she must combine polar opposites at different points in the film: hopeless yet confident, a bitch yet a sweetheart, youthful yet mature.

Thanks to the hilarious and magnificently written script, Cake is entertaining from the second it begins, with Graham falling from an airplane, racing to her friend’s wedding.

What could have been simple lines of dialogue turn into gems. For instance, when her father awakes in the hospital, he asks, “was it a stroke?” Pippa replies, “no just a heart attack.” “What a relief.”

Sandra Oh, who plays Pippa’s best friend, is far too appealing to be given such little screen time. The chemistry between Graham and Oh is remarkably jovial. It’s like watching two of your best female friends interact, but much much funnier.

Diggs is the lone weak spot in the cast. He’s dull in his deliverance, and rather emotionless.

Cake could teach other Canadian-made films a few things. While other Canuck films try too hard to either “stay true” to Canada or attempt at imitating American films, Cake has no boundaries. It’s Canadian behind the scenes, has a cast largely made up of Americans, but at no time does it have a distinct country’s flavour.

4*

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