The Cake Eaters (Drama / Completed)

The Cake Eaters is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss.

Living in rural America, The Kimbrough family is a normally odd bunch; Easy, the patriarch and local butcher, is grieving over the recent loss of his wife, Ceci, while hiding a secret ongoing affair for years; Beagle, his youngest son who was left to care for his ailing mother, works in the local high school cafeteria by day but has a burning passion inside that manifests itself through painting street signs; and the eldest son, Guy, has been away from the family for years while pursuing his rock star dream in the big city until the day he learns of his mother's passing and that he's missed the funeral.

Upon Guy's return home, relationships between the characters begin to unravel; Beagle's pent up emotions connect with Georgia Kaminski, a terminally ill teenage girl wanting to experience love before it's too late; Easy's long time affair with Marg, Georgia's 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. Through it all, The Kimbroughs and Kaminski's manage to establish a new beginning in the face of their greatest fears.

Director: Mary Stuart Masterson

Writer: Jayce Bartok

Producers: Allen Bain, Elisa Pugliese, Jesse Scolaro, Mary Stuart Masterson

Executive Producers: Patrick R. Morris

Production Company: 57th & Irving Productions / Vinyl Foote Productions

- Audience Award: Best Dramatic Feature (Mary Stuart Masterson)

Stony Brook Film Festival (2008):

- Best Feature (Mary Stuart Masterson)

Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival (2007):

- People's Choice Award: Best American Indie (Mary Stuart Masterson)

"The Cake Eaters is one of those films that sneaks up on you a half hour after the credits roll. Pic, which marks Mary Stuart Masterson's directorial debut, is charming when it needs to be, and careful not to become too melodramatic. It's one of those comfortable quiet films where most of the action is non-verbal and the characters rarely ever say what's really on their minds. But when they do, the dialogue is delivered in a way that's so personal, you almost feel like that awkward third party -- the ear that's not supposed to be hearing all this."

"The Masterson siblings manage to capture every square inch of beauty trapped within this small town. The pacing is well-timed, and the script (penned by Bartok) does a good job of making the audience read between the lines."

"Credit also has to go to the performances; mainly Stanford and Stewart. In a film where most of the action revolves around what's not being said, Stanford breathes life into a character who goes to great lengths to hide his emotions... On the other hand, Stewart plays the part of a teenage girl coping with a terminal disease so convincingly, you never see the actress in her. It's a performance so painful and so real that I'm surprised her name hasn't come up in award conversations."

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