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Isn't It Delicious (2013)
Review
Writing this review I should disclose right off the bat that I am an old friend of Michael Kelly's, and knew him to be a very talented filmmaker. I went into the screening at the Big Apple Film Festival expecting to see something really good, but I had no idea. Make no mistake about it—this is no art house movie. It's a major motion picture.
It's hard to pick out particular performances in a movie where the acting is so uniformly excellent and the characters so consistently portrayed. Alice Ripley does stand out for her portrayal of the vacuous Caroline Weldon, giving the character a tremendous arc of emotional depth by movie's end.
The exception here is Kathleen Chalfant's knock-it-out-of-the-ballpark portrayal of Joan Weldon, the matriarch of a dysfunctional family that is a cross between a Woody Allen movie and King Lear. Indeed, her interpretation is Shakespearian in its depth. The transformation of her character is spellbinding. What a tremendous actor!
Credit must go to Kathleen Kiley's script. You know a script is great when you really hate all the characters ten minutes in, after which you can't wait to see what they do next. Michael's direction has given the script a Quentin Tarantino sheen which made the emotionally wrenching subject matter a lot easier for me to digest and extremely entertaining to boot.
I could go on and on. Suffice it to say that I will be very disappointed if this film doesn't go on to play in movie houses across America. It's that good.