Fast Food Fast Women (2000)

Director:

Amos Kollek

Writer:

Amos Kollek (written by)

Release Date:

27 July 2000 (Israel)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

There are 18 million people in New York City, but only one like Bella.

Plot:

How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Waitress | Regular Customer | Lie | Bubble

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Anna Levine	...	Bella (as Anna Thomson)
Jamie Harris	...	Bruno
Louise Lasser	...	Emily
Robert Modica	...	Paul
Lonette McKee	...	Sherry-Lynn
Victor Argo	...	Seymour
Angelica Torn	...	Vitka
Austin Pendleton	...	George
Sandrine Holt	...	Giselle
Valerie Geffner	...	Wanda
Mark Margolis	...	Graham
Judith Roberts	...	Bella's Mother
Lynn Cohen	...	Jesse
Salem Ludwig	...	Leo
Irma St. Paule	...	Mary-Beth (as Irma St. Paul)

Also Known As:

Fast Food, Fast Women (France)

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality/nudity and language.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA | France | Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

France:U | Germany:6 | Norway:11 | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | USA:R

Company:

Fast Productions LLC

Soundtrack:

Blame It On The Rain

The power of being committed to what you personally believe in

I saw this movie last night on TV, and found it refreshing, personally inspiring, despite the negative comments others have written about it.

The characters redeemed themselves by sticking with what they thought they believed in, and/or went after what they thought was important to them, despite how impossible those goals seemed.

Much as Bella has chosen her waitress job, various characters meet impediments which cause them to choose one way or the other. At the end, you realize how true to themselves they really were.

The quirky personalities made the characters more real to me. I was able to envelop myself totally in this movie, forget all about myself, my troubles, my own world, despite some loose ends and unnatural jumps in the stories. Life's like that. These people seemed real to me, even when I knew they weren't.

The movie made me happy in general, happy for the characters' successes, and aware that it was a fairy tale colored a bit by some of life's inevitable disappointments. The characters were not foolish, just human. Because most of their lives were not in the movie, it seemed somewhat like a loosely structured play.

Rough, unpolished, quirky, non-Hollywood romances, people getting by, people looking for the "right" person to love them.....7.5 points from me