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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Anne Wheeler |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Vidmark/Trimark |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 031398725336 |
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Customer Reviews of Better Than Chocolate
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>THIS IS A VERY GOOD MOVIE (F/ THOSE OVER 18).
If you want a sexy girl-girl movie...
Then this is what the doctor ordered. The girls are cute, the dialogue is provocative, and the undressed action is liberally spaced throughout. I liked it more than "High Art", but it wasn't as much fun (over and over again) as "GODDESS WORSHIP."
I don't know if this movie is better than chocolate but.....
I don't think this movie is as bad as what some of the critics are saying about it. Yes it's very predictable but at least the screwball comedies in this film are enjoyable?
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>The movie is about a Lesbian teenager named Maggie (Karen Dwyer) who works (and basically lives) in a bookstore. When she gets news that her mother Lila (Wendy Crewson) and brother Paul () are moving in to her "apartment", she starts looking for a place. To add more to this drama, she isn't even out to her family. Along the way she meet this butch artist name Kim (Christina Cox) and they fell in love. Once Lila and Paul moved in to her "apartment" (which is nothing more than someone else's place she's taking care of for 4 weeks), all hell ensures as the mother turns out to be a neurotic nut who constantly tries to control her daughter's life and eats lots of chocolate since she doesn't get enough sex.
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>There's also a subplot in this movie where a male-to-female transgender Judy (Peter Outerbridge) persues Frances (Anne-Marie McDonald).
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>First thing is that I didn't like the character Maggie, Karyn did an ok job playing the character but I found Maggie to be annoying and too 90s Lesbian chic for me (I HATE the 90s). I did like Kim though, she's cool and I think she was cuter and has a sexier body than Maggie (even though she's a butch and I'm not into them).
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>The mother Lila is just plain hilarious and so was Judy. Frances was very uptight but later on became more relaxed as Judy's persistence got stronger. The character that Anne-Marie McDonald plays her is totally different from the character she played in an another Lesbian classic "I've Heard The Mermaids Singing", when she played the young butch lesbian artist in that movie.
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>What makes to movie more enjoyable are that the main characters are not perfect. Maggie is not totally out of the closet, Kim runs away when things get rough, Lila is a neurotic nut, Frances is uptight and reserved, Judy is well, just Judy. The singing scenes were great as well, especially Judy singing "I am not a f***ing drag queen). I wished that the movie had more of that.
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>The ending for the movie was way too predictable and kinda left a bad taste in my mouth, not even the silly Where Are They Now? section could save the ending.
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>Overall this is not a bad movie, if this site would allow me to give 3.5 stars, then I would (one star for the ending and a half-star for the character Maggie). However I enjoyed the movie, with it's updated version of screwball comedy and it's unique characters. Some people have said that they would like to see more of the Kim and Maggie relationship, but I glad that the movie didn't. It would have taken away from the light-hearted charm that the movie had, the movie isn't really about Maggie and Kim, it's about the nutty confrontation between Maggie and her mother.
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>While I won't call it a lesbian classic, I would recommend people to rent the dvd/tape and watch it.