Not since Wallace Shawn
set down at the table across from Andre Gregory in director Louis Malle’s 1981
film, My Dinner With Andre, has there been a cinematic meal quite
like that of writer/director Eric Shapiro’s latest film, Living Things.
While Wallace Shawn and
Andre Gregory covered a wide spectrum of eclectic subjects over a pleasant meal,
the dinner that Rhona (Rhoda Jordan — Rule of 3, Galaxy Hunter, etc.) and
Leo (Ben Siegler — Big Brother Jake, Fallen, S.W.A.T., etc.) sit down
to focuses like a laser on life styles, eating habits and animal cruelty. It is a verbal battle … a war of ideas!
Rhona and her
father-in-law end up alone at dinner one evening, it wasn’t planned that way,
but there you have it. She’s a vegan
and a yoga instructor, while Leo is a meat-eating combat veteran — oil and
water, Venus and Mars, black and white … you get the picture.
These two polar opposites,
who begin with a discussion of her diet, quickly expand the “debate” into the
equivalent of verbal fisticuffs as they wade into the treatment of animals,
health issues and even the environment will all become fair game before dessert
is served!
Cinema Libre has tabbed
Apr. 15 as the DVD debut date for this incendiary film, which has been endorsed
by PETA.
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complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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