Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?


"'CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE?' IS A UNIQUE, MEMORABLE AND DARING FILM - AS FRESH, SWEET AND PIQUANT AS THE EDIBLE IN ITS TITLE, AS LOOSE AND UNEXPECTED AS LIFE, BUT AS SHAPED AND WITTY AS A GREAT SHORT STORY!"

-David Thompson, Sight & Sound

"A SPARKLING, OFF-BEAT ROMANTIC COMEDY, THE FRESHNESS OF 'CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE?' LIES IN JAGLOM'S BREEZY APPROACH AND IN HIS ACCEPTANCE THAT CRUELTY, AS DEPLORABLE AS IT IS, IS AT TIMES INEVITABLY AS MUCH A PART OF EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AS KINDNESS. From Karen Black, who can seem alternately gorgeous and bedraggled, joyous and defeated, Jaglom has gotten one of her finest portrayals and surely her best comic performance."

-Kevin Thompson, Los Angeles Times

"A MARVELOUS EXPLORATION OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, true and tender and radiantly droll. This can only be the work of Henry Jaglom, who struck comic gold with 'SITTING DUCKS' and now has done it again!"

-David Robinson, The Times, London

"'CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE?' IS A UNIQUE, MEMORABLE AND DARING FILM - AS FRESH, SWEET AND PIQUANT AS THE EDIBLE IN ITS TITLE, AS LOOSE AND UNEXPECTED AS LIFE, BUT AS SHAPED AND WITTY AS A GREAT SHORT STORY!"

-David Thompson, Sight & Sound

AWARDS:

Official Selection
Berlin Film Festival

Official Selection
Cannes Film Festival


SYNOPSIS:

Zee (Karen Black) is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli (Michael Emil). A very unlikely, funny, and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city, which is the third major character in this film.


Cast:


Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Martin Harvey Freidberg, Larry David. Introducing
Frances Fisher.

1983 90 min. Color R