Hi, all, here is some more news about Nisha's film, Cake, hope you
all enjoy.... wanted to update everyone.... Peace
"CAKE"
Starring Heather Graham, David Sutcliffe. Written by Tassie Cameron.
Directed by Nisha Ganatra. (PG) 94 min. Opens Dec 2.
What are the odds that a stridently commitment-phobic freelance
writer would wind up editing -- wait for it -- a wedding magazine?
Pretty good, if she's living inside this heroically contrived
romantic comedy.
Pippa McGee (Heather Graham) is a globe-trotting excitement junkie,
but during a trip home to Toronto, she finds her publishing magnate
father (Bruce Gray) sprawled out in the living room after a heart
attack. He's OK -- phew! -- but Pippa wants to help out, and
volunteers to run bridal tome Wedding Bells in his absence.
It's time for those of you playing at home to pull out your modern
rom-com checklist. Pippa's wacky female friends (check) think it's
gonna work out, and her go-girl gay assistant (check) is on board,
but her tenure is soon fraught with predictable peril: her ideas are
too "highbrow" and nobody "gets" her (check and check). It's all very
sad, until Pippa falls for straight-arrow company man Ian (David
Sutcliffe) and realizes that true love may not be a hopeless illusion
(check and mate).
Movies this formulaic and transparent don't come out of nowhere.
They're byproducts of the very same predatory corporate forces that
our heroine derides for bamboozling female consumers with glossy
mixed messages. Seems there is an audience for Cake: let them eat it.
AN