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Writer:
Anthony Byrne (writer)
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Release Date:
16 May 2008 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Life is a buffet
Plot:
A little bit of life, love and wisdom come together over one night in the culinary underbelly where Life is a buffet and everything is "Short Order". full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 7 nominations more
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Irish/Czech Co-Production for Venice Critics Week
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For Emma de Caunes fans for sure more (4 total)

Cast

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Emma de Caunes ... Fiona

Rade Serbedzija ... Paulo (as Rade Sherbedgia)

Cosma Shiva Hagen ... Catherine
Jack Dee ... Harry
Paul Kaye ... Cable Show guy

Vanessa Redgrave ... Marianne

John Hurt ... Felix
Paschal Friel ... Pedro
Tatiana Ouliankina ... Stefani
Vincent Fegan ... Master Chef / Sebastin Gruel
Tommy O'Neill

Jon Polito
Eamonn Hunt
Frédéric Andrau
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Adam Goodwin

Philip Murphy ... Butcher
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Also Known As:
Life Is a Buffet (International: English title) (new title)
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Runtime:
100 min
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References "Wonder Woman" (1975) more

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For Emma de Caunes fans for sure, 17 May 2008
7/10
Author: zvelf-1 from United States

SHORT ORDER is a lot like a crass Jean-Pierre Jeunet film. It's filled with vignettes trying to link food to sex. So we have Jon Polito describing mending pizza dough in the same way he would touch a woman and we see a chef from behind furiously beating eggs and looking a lot like, well, you figure it out. There's also plenty of college freshman-level existential philosophizing, Moby Dick references, and allusions to classic Hollywood musicals. The movie is not all that overall, but it did confirm for me that Emma de Caunes is the most beautiful actress currently working, and co-star Cosma Shiva Hagen might be a pretty close second.

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