Cast: Kristen Stewart (as Georgia), Aaron Stanford (as Beagle), Bruce Dern (as Easy), and others.

Plot: Two families are brought together by the return of one family’s son — a reunion that conjures up old ghosts and issues that must be addressed.

Review: The Cake Eaters, is directorial debut by Mary Stuart Masterson (actress from Fried Green Tomatoes, Bed of Roses etc.). The movie is set in a small town, and moves at a very slow pace, through the lives of two inter-connected families. The Kimborough’s, a grieving family, survived by an old father, the town butcher, named Easy by the folks, his younger son, Beagle and older son, Guy! and another family dealing with a teenage daughter growing up with a debilitating neurological disorder (Friedriech’s Ataxia).

The story unfolds the inter-twined lives of the six main characters in the movie and their, lacking all the usual twists, but very real. A good work for the first time director, which has received accolades for this work on different film festivals.

Rating: 3.5 of 5.