Eating Raoul
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Actor: Mary Woronov, Paul BartelBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Eating Raoul
Movie Review: A CULT CLASSIC...
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the funniest films of the 80's is Paul Bartel's "Eating Raoul" starring Bartel and cult actress Mary Woronov as Paul and Mary Bland, an old-fashioned "straight" couple with dreams of owning their own restaurant. Paul is a wine connoisseur working at a liquor store in a bad neighborhood and Mary's a dietician working in an LA hospital. They are bewildered and disgusted by their dead end jobs, crime and the amount of sexual deviants piling into their apartment building. They also don't have enough money to buy the choice property they've found for their dream restaurant. Paul loses his job and things really start to look bleak. But optimistic Mary has high hopes and these come to fruition when they kill a "swinger" with a frying pan who tries to attack Mary and find he has a lot of cash on him. Soon , they're in business thanks to a sexy add in a swinger's trade paper...luring "swingers" to their apartment with fake set ups, whacking them with the frying pan and rolling their pockets. Things are looking good until they meet Raoul, a shyster locksmith with an agenda of his own, a dog food connection...and an attraction for Mary. "Eating Raoul" manages to poke fun at everything and remain consistently entertaining evry time you watch it. The cast is energetic and funny and full of familiar faces: Edie McClurg, Hamilton Camp and many others. Susan Saigler as Doris the Dominatrix is especially funny. The Bland apartment is a delightful nightmare of "fabulous fifties' furniture" and other kitsch. The DVD looks good and Mary Woronov's incredibly long and tawny legs seem to fill up the screen. She's sexy yet the kind of girl you'd like to know. She's a thinking man's sex symbol and an excellent comic rolled into one. "Eating Raoul" may be this underrated and underused actress' finest hour. So for anyone who hasn't seen this, it's a rare ode to everything tacky and a very funny film. Enjoy and Bon Appetit!
Summary of Eating Raoul
The Blands are a couple living in swinging Los Angeles with their ultra-conservative ways. They find it hard to live life in the midst of all of the completely obnoxious swinging bachelors. Their dreams of running a small restaurant seem to be in jeopardy until they devise a plan to off the swingers in their apartment building with the use of a frying pan to the head, dispose of the bodies and keep the wallets. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action. Huge cult favorite comes to DVD for the first time!You'd think a black comedy about murder, tackiness, and sexual perversion would quickly become dated, but Eating Raoul (1982) feels surprisingly fresh and delightful. When Mary Bland (Mary Woronov) gets assaulted by one of the repulsive swingers from the neighboring apartment, her husband Paul (Paul Bartel) rescues her with a swift blow from a frying pan--only to discover a substantial wad of cash in the swinger's wallet. A lure-and-kill scheme follows, which nicely fills their nest egg until a slippery thief named Raoul (Robert Beltran of Star Trek: Voyager, making his film debut) stumbles onto the truth and insists on getting a share. When Raoul starts demanding a share of Mary as well, Paul has to take drastic steps. The key to Eating Raoul isn't the sensational content, but the blithe, matter-of-fact attitude Bartel and Woronov take to it; their sly underplaying makes the movie sparkle with wicked wit. --Bret Fetzer
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