Compulsion

MY KITCHEN IS MY TEMPLE
Love me, love my food, a simple rule for life. Amy (Heather Graham) lives in a delusional world where she has her own TV cooking show which openly equates food with sex. Her boyfriend Fred (Kevin Dillon) doesn't share in her compulsion and makes the mistake of openly loving his rare African parrot more than her food. The police (Joe Mantegna) is investigating the disappearance of the neighbor Saffron (Carrie-Anne Moss). Amy claims she knows Saffron, but clearly what she relates to the police is not the reality. Saffron is an actress who has fallen on hard times. Amy cooks for her not realizing Saffron is a closet bulimic, well not actually a bulimic in that she doesn't binge eat.

The film has great scenes of Heather's cleavage, cooking food and relating it to sex, eat your heart out Rachel Ray. Outside of that, the plot displayed weakness. You have a basic idea where the story is going to lead, just unsure how it gets there. Good character portrayals, unfortunately the...

Nice Food Shots, but...
You might like this movie if you enjoyed:
Fatal Attraction (1987), Single White Female (1992)

Long Story Short: A young woman (Heather Graham) with an extreme passion for food is suspected to be involved with the disappearing of her neighbor (Carrie-Anne Moss). While she is preparing a meal for the investigating officer she is reminiscing, and the truth slowly gets revealed.

Review: It saddens me to see Heather Graham in all these weird B-movies, but I guess once you did one, you are stuck in this genre forever. The movie starts very appealing by showing many different food shots and colors and Heather Graham in many different Stepford -wife -like outfits, and the story seems interesting, too. But after about 30 minutes it starts getting a little boring, there doesn't seem to be any character development, and I honestly don't remember the dialogues, because they have been so meaningless. It seems like Egidio Coccimiglio had a good idea but didn't know how to...

A One Trick Pony
If you own the books of Brett Easton Ellis, you'll find this total rehash. His characters' mind numbing gluttony of high fashion is cut and pasted to fine cuisine. There is also a fetish for nonsexual elements like Cronenberg explored and an ambition for a wide audience and a celebrity friendship like Scorsese's "King of Comedy." The performance itself is like a poor man's Nicole Kidman.

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