Eating
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Directed by Henry Jaglom | 110 mins | 1990
When a multigenerational group of women gather for a 40th birthday, their disordered relationships to food and to their own bodies bubble to the surface—going beyond just the plate of cake that gets endlessly passed between them to become an explicit topic of discussion. The first in a loose quartet by Jaglom on hot-button “women’s topics,” "Eating" clearly riffs on the real-life experiences of its stars, the director’s role probing rather than imposing.
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