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Better Than Chocolate - Director's Cut
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781573627795
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 1573627798
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Release Date: November 06, 2001
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Editorial Review:
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 Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Better than Chocolate
A good honest film about young love, well worth sitting down to watch. You could even enjoy it with your partner, what ever relationship your in.
Rating:  - Way better than chocolate
Better than chocolate is the type of movie that after you are done watching it, you know that there are bad circumstances out there, but in the end it doesn't matter because - if you have love, nothing else matters. I must have watched this movie 30 times in one week when I first got it.
They couldn't have picked a better person than (christina Cox) to play the part of Kim. Extremely good acting, tasteful, very believable, and while you are watching it - it makes you feel like you are there. ... Read More
Rating:  - SO SO
This is a movie that I though would be interresting to view with my special someone bu when we looked at it we waited for the plot and the what's next in the movie...it was just too predicatable with no organization to the story line. SO its truly not a buy rent it rather if you can find it or borrow it from someone.
Rating:  - bad choice
This movie is in no way what you expect it to be. . . it has a poor story line and is perhaps the lowest budgeted movie ever seen by this viewer.
Rating: - Great
This is one of the first movies of this type that I have ever seen and I have to say that I loved it. When it first came on I thought, "Oh no...they got over on me". But within the first 5 minutes my eyes were glued to the screen. This story is truly one about falling in love. The characters are so believable. It is a part of my dvd / vidoe library that I visit often and will continue to do so. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
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