IMDb plot summary: The acerbic, hilarious Claire Bennett becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy.
Directed by Daniel Barnz. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, and Sam Worthington.
This was clearly Jennifer Aniston's "I'm a serious actress" role, and it's a pretty decent one in a kind of muddled movie. It dances around a lot about grief and chronic pain and depression and substance abuse and never quite settles on anything, which gives it an interesting quality of not being about someone turning their life around so much about someone just going through an especially difficult period of grieving and moving on just... normally. There's no major revelation that sticks out above the rest, it's just a series of small things encouraging her to move forward, a little after everyone else has kind of given up on her. I want to like this film, and I allllmost do, but it is messy, and I'll have to keep processing it before I can figure out if it makes sense.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Cake > Tokyo Story
Cake < 22 Jump Street
Cake < Real Life
Cake < Kinky Boots the Musical
Cake > Like Crazy
Cake < Hanna
Cake < Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Cake > Man on Fire
Cake > Neighbors
Cake > Dumbo
Cake < Imitation of Life (1959)
Final spot: #1418 out of 3069.
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