Better Than Chocolate (Rated Edition)
by Anne Wheeler
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Actor: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Christina Cox, Karyn Dwyer, Marya Delver, Wendy CrewsonDirector: Anne Wheeler
Cinematographer: Gregory Middleton
Producer: Christopher Adkins
Producer: Peggy Thompson
Writer: Peggy Thompson
Producer: Rosamond Norbury
Producer: Sharon McGowan
Producer: Wolfram Tichy
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 101 minutes
Release Date: 2001-11-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark
Studio: Vidmark / Trimark
VHS Movie Reviews of Better Than Chocolate (Rated Edition)
Movie Review: It's okay
Summary: 2 Stars
Not one of my favorite Lesbian movies, but I ordered it because everyone said I should own a copy. It was a typical so-so movie...cute chick mets another cute chick, they fall in love, both have issues that tear them apart, they get back together.
he movie tends to deal with prejudice in its forms...and the message is...prejudice is BAD. And we hear it over and over and over again.
My favorite character was the transgendered mtf. S/he made the film interesting, otherwise it was a so-so film.
Summary of Better Than Chocolate (Rated Edition)
Many lesbian movies are long on charm and short on production values; Better Than Chocolate has a solid dose of both and steamy sex scenes to boot. Our heroine Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a clerk at a lesbian bookstore, meets footloose butch Kim (Christina Cox) and, after Kim's van is towed away, they move in together. Unfortunately for their romantic bliss, Maggie's mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and teenage brother move in that very evening thanks to Lila's impending divorce. But what really complicates matters is that Maggie can't bring herself to come out to her mother; even when she tries, Lila steamrolls through the conversation, like she knows what's coming and doesn't want to hear it. Interwoven with this is the struggle of Judy (Peter Outerbridge), a male-to-female transsexual who's in love with the bookstore's owner, Frances (Ann-Marie MacDonald), who's freaking out because customs officers are holding a list of books at the border that they claim are obscene. The overlapping plots are deftly juggled, the personal and political are compellingly interwoven, and, most satisfying of all, the characters have problems that aren't going to be easily resolved. A handful of candy-colored lip-synching musical numbers give the movie some flash and the sex scenes give the movie some heat, but it's the elements of sorrow and ambiguity that really make the joy in Better Than Chocolate something to savor. --Bret FetzerComedy VHS Video
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